java.lang.AssertionError: invalid UTF8 when replacing mysql jdbc driver

Replace mysql-connector-java-5.1.22-bin.jar with Maria mariadb-java-client-1.1.5.jar, got the following exception:

java.lang.AssertionError: invalid UTF8
at org.mariadb.jdbc.MySQLClob.length(MySQLClob.java:128)
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.DataHelper.determineLengthForBufferSizing(DataHelper.java:300)
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.DataHelper.extractString(DataHelper.java:279)
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.StringTypeDescriptor.wrap(StringTypeDescriptor.java:89)
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.StringTypeDescriptor.wrap(StringTypeDescriptor.java:39)
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.ClobTypeDescriptor$1.doExtract(ClobTypeDescriptor.java:60)
at org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.BasicExtractor.extract(BasicExtractor.java:65)
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeGet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:261)
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeGet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:257)
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.nullSafeGet(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:247)
at org.hibernate.type.AbstractStandardBasicType.hydrate(AbstractStandardBasicType.java:332)
at org.hibernate.persister.entity.AbstractEntityPersister.hydrate(AbstractEntityPersister.java:2873)
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.loadFromResultSet(Loader.java:1668)
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.instanceNotYetLoaded(Loader.java:1600)
at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getRow(Loader.java:1500)