Hi Vicki,
The change you saw to this report in 6.8B was based on the request of another user - I guess 6 of one and half a dozen of the other...
We are just about to complete a fix to Adagio Payables that will change how 'Status Pending' checks can be printed on the Check Rec report. I presume that this is the issue you are running into. You will now have the option to either include or exclude checks from the report that have had the Check Status changed but not yet posted. Hopefully this will allow you to get what you wanted.
To confirm, if you have cleared a check but not yet posted the status change, would you consider the check to still be Outstanding or Cleared?