diff --git a/.github/workflows/openai.yml b/.github/workflows/openai.yml
index 975045f4ce1c..be2840c2dc67 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/openai.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/openai.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ on:
       - "notebook/agentchat_groupchat_finite_state_machine.ipynb"
       - ".github/workflows/openai.yml"
 permissions: {}
-    # actions: read
+  # actions: read
   # checks: read
   # contents: read
   # deployments: read
diff --git a/autogen/agentchat/groupchat.py b/autogen/agentchat/groupchat.py
index 5997b093a362..fbb7b88afee1 100644
--- a/autogen/agentchat/groupchat.py
+++ b/autogen/agentchat/groupchat.py
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ async def a_run_chat(
             # Broadcast the intro
             intro = groupchat.introductions_msg()
             for agent in groupchat.agents:
-                self.a_send(intro, agent, request_reply=False, silent=True)
+                await self.a_send(intro, agent, request_reply=False, silent=True)
             # NOTE: We do not also append to groupchat.messages,
             # since groupchat handles its own introductions
 
diff --git a/autogen/version.py b/autogen/version.py
index ddc77a88056e..699eb888d3ab 100644
--- a/autogen/version.py
+++ b/autogen/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.2.15"
+__version__ = "0.2.16"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b90711546d21..4debf3c81e36 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@
         "graph": ["networkx", "matplotlib"],
         "websurfer": ["beautifulsoup4", "markdownify", "pdfminer.six", "pathvalidate"],
         "redis": ["redis"],
-        # Dependencies for EmbeddedIPythonExecutor, to be removed once upstream bug fixed
-        # jupyter-client
-        # https://github.com/jupyter-server/kernel_gateway/issues/398
         "jupyter-executor": [
             "jupyter-kernel-gateway",
             "websocket-client",