Automatic paging has been added to e.g. the WFS layer to improve performance. In my case it is in fact the opposite: I now get two requests to the WFS server instead of just one. First there is the "RESULTTYPE: hits" request and after that the GetFeature request.
In my case I only load data from WFS services when I zoom close to the map. I am getting a limited set of data each time and I do not need paging. However, it seems impossible to turn paging off at the moment. A simple "maxPageCount: 0" could do the trick, but anything like that does not seem to be supported.