FailingUponPendingStep strategy not honoured

This is happening because PerformableTree.performCancellable(RunContext, Story) checks context.failureOccurred() which looks at the context State. If the final example succeeded, this state is FineSoFar, even though previous examples failed.

I'm afraid I don't know enough to patch this one myself

By default the state is reset before each scenario, but if you can override the default behaviour by

Configuration.storyControl().doResetStateBeforeScenario(true)

Then the story will fail.

Can you please verify if this configuration change will give you the desired behaviour?

I'm away for a couple of weeks, but I'll give it a go when I'm back.

Could you please confirm if the configuration change work for you?

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I'll try and find some time to check this next week.

Mauro, I'm taking a look at this issue for James at the moment.
I changed the setting to false (I assume that is what you meant above?), and it now looks like that failures fail the story as expected. However, a pending scenario amongst successful scenarios doesn't fail the story. We are using the FailingUponPendingStep strategy which is working for us using 3.6.6.
Any thoughts?

It's indeed a regression. I'll update this issue accordingly to track it.