The following commit introduced a reference leak:

commit 196a530e00d88a138973bf9182e013937e293f97
Author: Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer@UGent.be>
Date:   Thu Jul 4 12:31:34 2019 +0200
 
    bpo-37483: add _PyObject_CallOneArg() function (#14558)

Example:

https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/80/builds/642

test_xml_etree leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_threading leaked [6, 6, 6] references, sum=18
test_atexit leaked [6, 6, 6] references, sum=18
test_compile leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_zipfile leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_tokenize leaked [3, 3, 3] references, sum=9
test_pydoc leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_codecs leaked [43, 43, 43] references, sum=129
test_codecs leaked [11, 11, 11] memory blocks, sum=33
Re-running failed tests in verbose mode
test__xxsubinterpreters leaked [136, 136, 136] references, sum=408
test_getargs2 leaked [4, 4, 4] references, sum=12
test_source_encoding leaked [3, 3, 3] references, sum=9
test_capi leaked [4, 4, 4] references, sum=12
test_email leaked [17, 17, 17] references, sum=51
test_xml_etree leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_threading leaked [6, 6, 6] references, sum=18
test_atexit leaked [6, 6, 6] references, sum=18
test_compile leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_zipfile leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_tokenize leaked [3, 3, 3] references, sum=9
test_pydoc leaked [1, 1, 1] references, sum=3
test_codecs leaked [43, 43, 43] references, sum=129
test_codecs leaked [11, 11, 11] memory blocks, sum=33
(...)