diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b80dfb7b..a38a6299 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# 0.1.3 2025-03-04
+
+- Fix missing dependency issue for packaging
+
+- Support out-of-order field definitions in the VCF header (#322, @ACEnglish)
+
 # 0.1.2 2025-02-04
 
 - Reduce memory requirement for encoding genotypes with large sample sizes
@@ -20,7 +26,7 @@ Breaking changes
 
 Maintenance release:
 
-- Pin numpy to < 2 
+- Pin numpy to < 2
 - Pin Zarr to < 3
 
 # 0.1.0 2024-06-10
diff --git a/bio2zarr/zarr_utils.py b/bio2zarr/zarr_utils.py
index 11c6b374..d99b71a4 100644
--- a/bio2zarr/zarr_utils.py
+++ b/bio2zarr/zarr_utils.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 import zarr
-from packaging.version import Version
 
 
 def zarr_v3() -> bool:
-    return Version(zarr.__version__).major >= 3
+    return zarr.__version__ >= "3"
 
 
 if zarr_v3():
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ecb3f60c..0b72ca1c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ dependencies = [
   # colouredlogs pulls in humanfriendly",
   "cyvcf2",
   "bed_reader",
-  "packaging",
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 classifiers = [