So it looks like MySQL connector library doesn't work with the latest MariaDB version:

$ mariadb
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Your MariaDB connection id is 13
Server version: 11.0.2-MariaDB-1:11.0.2+maria~ubu2004 <http://mariadb.org|mariadb.org> binary distribution

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