Because the InnoDB implementation in MariaDB has diverged from MySQL,
it is not meaningful to report a MySQL version number for InnoDB
any more. Some examples include:

MariaDB 10.1 (which is based on MySQL 5.6) included encryption and
variable-size page compression before MySQL 5.7 introduced them.
MariaDB 10.2 (based on MySQL 5.7) introduced persistent AUTO_INCREMENT
(MDEV-6076) in a GA release before MySQL 8.0.
MariaDB 10.3 (based on MySQL 5.7) introduced instant ADD COLUMN
(MDEV-11369) before MySQL.

All of these features use a different implementation and file format.
Also, some features were never merged from MySQL 5.7, and thus MariaDB
is not affected by related bugs. Examples include CREATE TABLESPACE
and the reimplementation of the partitioning engine.