MariaDB DEFAULT NULL ERROR 1064 (42000)

When trying to restore a MySQL databse bakcup taken on MySQL 5.7 server to MairaDB 10.1 server i get following error.

root@server:~# mysql -u vcon_user -p vcon_sbc < vcon_sbc.sql
Enter password: 
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 287: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'json DEFAULT NULL,
  `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
  `updated_at` ti' at line 3
root@server:~# 

Source server

root@ip-172-31-16-209:~# mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.27, for Linux (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper
root@ip-172-31-16-209:~# 

Destination server

root@server:~# mysql --version
mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.38-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2
root@server:~#

I opend the SQL file in editor and checked line 287, i run the SQL in mysql, that resulted in error

MariaDB [test]> CREATE TABLE `current_job_status_reports` (
    ->   `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    ->   `jobs` json DEFAULT NULL,
    ->   `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    ->   `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
    ->   PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
    -> ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=11 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'json DEFAULT NULL,
  `created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
  `updated_at` ti' at line 3
MariaDB [test]> 

I run the command on a MariaDB 10.2 server and it worked.

To fix the problem, upgrade MariaDB to version 10.2 or above. In this case, i went with MariaDB 10.04 and it worked fine.