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getdoc-news.patch suggests some wording to add to What’s New, and also adds a "Changed in version 3.5" note to inspect.getdoc().
BTW I also noticed that the class doc strings are not inherited from object.__doc__, although method doc strings _are_ inherited from object(), such as object.__init__.__doc__. The current documentation suggests that the class doc string "The most base type" should also be inherited.
$ cat module.py
class SomeClass:
 '''CLASS DOCSTRING'''
 def __init__(self):
 '''METHOD DOCSTRING'''
$ ./python -m pydoc module.SomeClass # Doc strings intact
[. . .]
module.SomeClass = class SomeClass(builtins.object)
 | CLASS DOCSTRING
 | 
 | Methods defined here:
 | 
 | __init__(self)
 | METHOD DOCSTRING
 | [. . .]
$ ./python -OOm pydoc module.SomeClass # Method inherited, class stripped
[. . .]
module.SomeClass = class SomeClass(builtins.object)
 | Methods defined here:
 | 
 | __init__(self)
 | Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.
 | [. . .]
I also wonder how well this feature would work when someone tries to override a base method by using a mix-in type class.