Taxonomy descriptions

I just upgraded to 4.4.2, and it appears that Drupal now displays the taxonomy description (if present) in every node containing the taxonomy term. Given that I've been using pretty substantial taxonomy descriptions in conjunction with taxonomy_context, to produce category pages with a thorough introduction followed by the first few nodes of the taxonomy, the result is extremely ugly.

Why was this behavior implemented? How do I get rid of it?

For now, I've copied the 4.4.1 taxonomy.module into my 4.4.2 tree and things seem to behave the way I want.

Thanks.