diff --git a/lang/luasql/Makefile b/lang/luasql/Makefile
index 3f904f8c3..1a43fdbcb 100644
--- a/lang/luasql/Makefile
+++ b/lang/luasql/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=luasql
 PKG_VERSION:=2.3.0
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=b6251065656bf3e066d90d492dd06eec2c2cc76ab4b94187ce3ed9620d41f741
diff --git a/lang/luasql/patches/01-mariadb-compat.patch b/lang/luasql/patches/01-mariadb-compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ceab7286d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/luasql/patches/01-mariadb-compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+commit 6df3f672313f8dbca219199c8ec8d20c0247347f
+Author: Tomás Guisasola <tomasguisasola@gmail.com>
+Date:   Mon Jul 31 09:41:49 2017 -0300
+
+    Add support for building with MariaDB (thanks to Florian Weimer).
+
+--- a/src/ls_mysql.c
++++ b/src/ls_mysql.c
+@@ -602,7 +602,11 @@ LUASQL_API int luaopen_luasql_mysql (lua
+ 	luaL_setfuncs(L, driver, 0);
+ 	luasql_set_info (L);
+     lua_pushliteral (L, "_MYSQLVERSION");
++#ifdef MARIADB_CLIENT_VERSION_STR
++    lua_pushliteral (L, MARIADB_CLIENT_VERSION_STR);
++#else
+     lua_pushliteral (L, MYSQL_SERVER_VERSION);
++#endif
+     lua_settable (L, -3);
+ 	return 1;
+ }