diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73c0c5df0..ab3d3e288 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # HDMF Changelog
 
+## HDMF 3.4.4 (September 20, 2022)
+
+### Bug fixes
+- Fixed missing dependency "packaging" introduced in 3.4.3. The code has been updated to avoid the dependency. @rly @oruebel ([#770](https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf/pull/770))
+
 ## HDMF 3.4.3 (September 14, 2022)
 
 ### Minor improvements
diff --git a/src/hdmf/common/alignedtable.py b/src/hdmf/common/alignedtable.py
index 073b11564..4a72124f6 100644
--- a/src/hdmf/common/alignedtable.py
+++ b/src/hdmf/common/alignedtable.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
-from packaging import version
 
 from . import register_class
 from .table import DynamicTable
@@ -248,11 +247,7 @@ def to_dataframe(self, **kwargs):
             dfs += [category.to_dataframe().reset_index() for category in self.category_tables.values()]
         names = [self.name, ] + list(self.category_tables.keys())
         res = pd.concat(dfs, axis=1, keys=names)
-        # TODO: Once Pandas minimum version has increased to 1.5 drop the if/else and just use the 1.5 approach
-        if version.parse(pd.__version__) >= version.parse("1.5.0"):
-            res = res.set_index((self.name, 'id'), drop=True, copy=False)   # pragma: no cover
-        else:
-            res.set_index((self.name, 'id'), drop=True, inplace=True)
+        res.set_index((self.name, 'id'), drop=True, inplace=True)
         return res
 
     def __getitem__(self, item):
@@ -316,11 +311,7 @@ def get(self, item, **kwargs):
                    [category[item].reset_index() for category in self.category_tables.values()])
             names = [self.name, ] + list(self.category_tables.keys())
             res = pd.concat(dfs, axis=1, keys=names)
-            # TODO: Once Pandas minimum version has increased to 1.5 drop the if/else and just use the 1.5 approach
-            if version.parse(pd.__version__) >= version.parse("1.5.0"):
-                res = res.set_index((self.name, 'id'), drop=True, copy=False)  # pragma: no cover
-            else:
-                res.set_index((self.name, 'id'), drop=True, inplace=True)
+            res.set_index((self.name, 'id'), drop=True, inplace=True)
             return res
         elif isinstance(item, str) or item is None:
             if item in self.colnames:
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index e5702184d..fa25dfe2e 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ commands = {[testenv:build]commands}
 # Envs that will test installation from a wheel
 [testenv:wheelinstall]
 deps = null
-commands = python -c "import hdmf"
+commands = python -c "import hdmf; import hdmf.common"
 
 # Envs that will execute gallery tests
 [testenv:gallery]