diff --git a/servicetalk-gradle-plugin-internal/src/main/groovy/io/servicetalk/gradle/plugin/internal/ServiceTalkLibraryPlugin.groovy b/servicetalk-gradle-plugin-internal/src/main/groovy/io/servicetalk/gradle/plugin/internal/ServiceTalkLibraryPlugin.groovy
index 523d445918..49a6898981 100644
--- a/servicetalk-gradle-plugin-internal/src/main/groovy/io/servicetalk/gradle/plugin/internal/ServiceTalkLibraryPlugin.groovy
+++ b/servicetalk-gradle-plugin-internal/src/main/groovy/io/servicetalk/gradle/plugin/internal/ServiceTalkLibraryPlugin.groovy
@@ -224,6 +224,16 @@ final class ServiceTalkLibraryPlugin extends ServiceTalkCorePlugin {
           }
         }
 
+        filter {
+          //includeTestsMatching "ContextMapTest"
+          failOnNoMatchingTests = false
+        }
+
+        reports {
+          html.required = true
+        }
+
+
         // if property is defined and true allow tests to continue running after first fail
         ignoreFailures = Boolean.getBoolean("servicetalk.test.ignoreFailures")
 
@@ -233,6 +243,11 @@ final class ServiceTalkLibraryPlugin extends ServiceTalkCorePlugin {
         // Always require native libraries for running tests. This helps to make sure transport-level state machine
         // receives all expected network events from Netty.
         systemProperty "io.servicetalk.transport.netty.requireNativeLibs", "true"
+
+        // Make sure we enable netty leak detection for our tests. By default these are not visible in the logs,
+        // to see them you must at --warn to your ./gradlew test run in order to see the "showStandardStreams".
+        systemProperty "io.netty.leakDetection.level", "PARANOID"
+        systemProperty "io.netty.leakDetection.targetRecords", "25"
       }
 
       dependencies {
diff --git a/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/H2PriorKnowledgeFeatureParityTest.java b/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/H2PriorKnowledgeFeatureParityTest.java
index 7a44f1b6d0..20f12e5073 100644
--- a/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/H2PriorKnowledgeFeatureParityTest.java
+++ b/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/H2PriorKnowledgeFeatureParityTest.java
@@ -2070,7 +2070,7 @@ public void channelReadComplete(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) {
         }
 
         private static void onDataRead(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Http2DataFrame data) {
-            ctx.write(new DefaultHttp2DataFrame(data.content().retainedDuplicate(), data.isEndStream()));
+            ctx.write(new DefaultHttp2DataFrame(data.content(), data.isEndStream()));
         }
 
         private void onHeadersRead(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Http2HeadersFrame headers) {
diff --git a/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/ServerRespondsOnClosingTest.java b/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/ServerRespondsOnClosingTest.java
index c04a81faf4..2582d069ce 100644
--- a/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/ServerRespondsOnClosingTest.java
+++ b/servicetalk-http-netty/src/test/java/io/servicetalk/http/netty/ServerRespondsOnClosingTest.java
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 
 class ServerRespondsOnClosingTest {
-
     private static final HttpResponseFactory RESPONSE_FACTORY = new DefaultHttpResponseFactory(
             DefaultHttpHeadersFactory.INSTANCE, DEFAULT_ALLOCATOR, HTTP_1_1);
     private static final String RESPONSE_PAYLOAD_BODY = "Hello World";
@@ -252,6 +251,8 @@ private void verifyResponse(String requestPath) {
         assertThat("Unexpected response meta-data", metaData.toString(US_ASCII), containsString(requestPath));
         ByteBuf payloadBody = channel.readOutbound();
         assertThat("Unexpected response payload body", payloadBody.toString(US_ASCII), equalTo(RESPONSE_PAYLOAD_BODY));
+        metaData.release();
+        payloadBody.release();
     }
 
     private void respondWithFIN() throws Exception {