HD, nothing has changed in recent years. All the Airbusses (318, 319, 320, 321, 330, 340 and most likely 380) have a function called ground speed mini.
It maintains a groundspeed and not an indicated airspeed. If you would ask us to maintain 160kts to 4 DME than we select this speed and fly it, i.e. 160 indicated. At 4 miles we go back to managed speed and on a windy day the ground speed mini might demand an indicated airspeed of 170kts (sometimes more) so the aircraft speeds up.
In general as far as I understand it is not a real problem for controllers when we fly a selected speed to 4 DME and than go managed speed, even if this means that we increase speed for a little while.
Where it can be a problem is when the controller ask us to reduce to minimum approach speed. In that case the speed can be high (170kts+ on windy day) while other (non airbus) traffic in fornt of us does 130 -140 kts.
Sorry not the best in explaining things but I hope this helped.