Patch taken from opensuse:
https://www.mail-archive.com/opensuse-commit@opensuse.org/msg60296.html

Modified to be conditional on MARIADB_BASE_VERSION

++++++ mysql-workbench-mysql_options4.patch ++++++
diff --git a/plugins/migration/copytable/copytable.cpp 
b/plugins/migration/copytable/copytable.cpp
index b273287..77c227b 100644
--- a/plugins/migration/copytable/copytable.cpp
+++ b/plugins/migration/copytable/copytable.cpp
@@ -1633,12 +1633,17 @@ MySQLCopyDataTarget::MySQLCopyDataTarget(const 
   std::string &hostname, int port,
   _truncate = false;
 
   mysql_init(&_mysql);
+  /* This is optional has compiled in for MySQL >= 5.6.6
+   * Looks like MariaDB does not support this as supposed,
+   * so disable completly. */
+#ifndef MARIADB_BASE_VERSION
 #if defined(MYSQL_VERSION_MAJOR) && defined(MYSQL_VERSION_MINOR) && defined(MYSQL_VERSION_PATCH)
 #if MYSQL_CHECK_VERSION(5,6,6)
   mysql_options4(&_mysql, MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_ATTR_ADD, "program_name", app_name.c_str());
 #endif
 #endif
+#endif
 
   // _bulk_insert_record is used to prepare a single record string, the connection
   // is needed to escape binary data properly