gulp-cucumber does not exit when done

[joniba]

Currently we have to use the gulp-exit plugin to get gulp-cucumber to exit when the tests are done:

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    plugins = require('gulp-load-plugins')();

gulp.task('cucumber', ['env-test'], function () {
    return gulp.src('features/*')
        .pipe(plugins.cucumber({
            'steps': 'features/**/*.steps.js',
            'support': 'features/support/*.js',
            'format': 'pretty',
            'tags': '~@ignore'
        }))
        .pipe(plugins.exit());
});

Perhaps for this reason we also do not get exit code 1 when cucumber tests fail. How are others using this plugin?

(Tried both 0.0.14 and 0.0.22)