diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/string.csv-spec b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/string.csv-spec
index 90a8afe725b77..0019e22fce482 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/string.csv-spec
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/qa/testFixtures/src/main/resources/string.csv-spec
@@ -980,6 +980,7 @@ beta         | Kubernetes cluster
 ;
 
 startsWithLucenePushdownIgnoreMultivalues
+required_capability: starts_with_ends_with_lucene_pushdown
 
 from hosts
 | where starts_with(description, "epsilon")
@@ -1246,6 +1247,7 @@ beta         | Kubernetes cluster
 ;
 
 endsWithLucenePushdownIgnoreMultivalues
+required_capability: starts_with_ends_with_lucene_pushdown
 
 from hosts
 | where ends_with(description, "host")
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/EsqlCapabilities.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/EsqlCapabilities.java
index 3db973efe698b..49576c325fb74 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/EsqlCapabilities.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/EsqlCapabilities.java
@@ -826,6 +826,12 @@ public enum Cap {
          */
         MIXED_NUMERIC_TYPES_IN_CASE_GREATEST_LEAST,
 
+        /**
+         * Lucene query pushdown to StartsWith and EndsWith functions.
+         * This capability was created to avoid receiving wrong warnings from old nodes in mixed clusters
+         */
+        STARTS_WITH_ENDS_WITH_LUCENE_PUSHDOWN,
+
         /**
          * Full text functions can be scored when being part of a disjunction
          */