diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchException.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchException.java
index 427618cc478f8..b3cacc6828997 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchException.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchException.java
@@ -1938,7 +1938,8 @@ private enum ElasticsearchExceptionHandle {
             183,
             TransportVersions.V_8_16_0
         ),
-        REMOTE_EXCEPTION(RemoteException.class, RemoteException::new, 184, TransportVersions.REMOTE_EXCEPTION_8_19);
+        // requires from id since remote_exception is a dead transport version on main
+        REMOTE_EXCEPTION(RemoteException.class, RemoteException::new, 184, TransportVersion.fromId(8841016));
 
         final Class<? extends ElasticsearchException> exceptionClass;
         final CheckedFunction<StreamInput, ? extends ElasticsearchException, IOException> constructor;
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersions.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersions.java
index ce2fb0b9deea1..78f55da603b0f 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersions.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersions.java
@@ -178,39 +178,6 @@ static TransportVersion def(int id) {
     public static final TransportVersion TIMEOUT_GET_PARAM_FOR_RESOLVE_CLUSTER = def(8_838_0_00);
     public static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_REQUEST_ADAPTIVE_RATE_LIMITING = def(8_839_0_00);
     public static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_IBM_WATSONX_RERANK_ADDED = def(8_840_0_00);
-    public static final TransportVersion REMOVE_ALL_APPLICABLE_SELECTOR_BACKPORT_8_18 = def(8_840_0_01);
-    public static final TransportVersion RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR_8_18 = def(8_840_0_02);
-    public static final TransportVersion INITIAL_ELASTICSEARCH_8_19 = def(8_841_0_00);
-    public static final TransportVersion COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X = def(8_841_0_01);
-    public static final TransportVersion REMOVE_ALL_APPLICABLE_SELECTOR_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_02);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_RETRY_ON_SHARD_LEVEL_FAILURE_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_03);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_SUPPORT_PARTIAL_RESULTS_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_04);
-    public static final TransportVersion VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X = def(8_841_0_05);
-    public static final TransportVersion JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_06);
-    public static final TransportVersion RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR_8_19 = def(8_841_0_07);
-    public static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_CONTEXT_8_X = def(8_841_0_08);
-    public static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_DEEPSEEK_8_19 = def(8_841_0_09);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_SERIALIZE_BLOCK_TYPE_CODE = def(8_841_0_10);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_FAILURE_FROM_REMOTE = def(8_841_0_11);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_LITERAL = def(8_841_0_12);
-    public static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA_8_19 = def(8_841_0_13);
-    public static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19 = def(8_841_0_14);
-    public static final TransportVersion RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED_8_19 = def(8_841_0_15);
-    public static final TransportVersion REMOTE_EXCEPTION_8_19 = def(8_841_0_16);
-    public static final TransportVersion AMAZON_BEDROCK_TASK_SETTINGS_8_19 = def(8_841_0_17);
-    public static final TransportVersion SEMANTIC_TEXT_CHUNKING_CONFIG_8_19 = def(8_841_0_18);
-    public static final TransportVersion BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X = def(8_841_0_19);
-    public static final TransportVersion SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_20);
-    public static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER_8_19 = def(8_841_0_21);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_22);
-    public static final TransportVersion PINNED_RETRIEVER_8_19 = def(8_841_0_23);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK_8_19 = def(8_841_0_24);
-    public static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_25);
-    public static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_26);
-    public static final TransportVersion RESCORE_VECTOR_ALLOW_ZERO_BACKPORT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_27);
-    public static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT_8_19 = def(8_841_0_28);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_REPORT_SHARD_PARTITIONING_8_19 = def(8_841_0_29);
-    public static final TransportVersion ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION_8_19 = def(8_841_0_30);
 
     /*
      * STOP! READ THIS FIRST! No, really,
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/GetDataStreamAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/GetDataStreamAction.java
index 6300efaa11eb9..55c166092f325 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/GetDataStreamAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/GetDataStreamAction.java
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ public enum ManagedBy {
 
         public static final ParseField DATA_STREAMS_FIELD = new ParseField("data_streams");
 
+        private static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION = TransportVersion.fromName(
+            "introduce_failures_default_retention"
+        );
         private static final TransportVersion INCLUDE_INDEX_MODE_IN_GET_DATA_STREAM = TransportVersion.fromName(
             "include_index_mode_in_get_data_stream"
         );
@@ -649,7 +652,7 @@ public static Response read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
                 : null;
             DataStreamGlobalRetention dataGlobalRetention = null;
             DataStreamGlobalRetention failuresGlobalRetention = null;
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION)) {
                 var defaultRetention = in.readOptionalTimeValue();
                 var maxRetention = in.readOptionalTimeValue();
                 var failuresDefaultRetention = in.readOptionalTimeValue();
@@ -688,7 +691,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
                 out.writeOptionalWriteable(rolloverConfiguration);
             }
             // A version 9.x cluster will never read this, so we only need to include the patch version here.
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().isPatchFrom(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION)) {
                 out.writeOptionalTimeValue(dataGlobalRetention == null ? null : dataGlobalRetention.defaultRetention());
                 out.writeOptionalTimeValue(dataGlobalRetention == null ? null : dataGlobalRetention.maxRetention());
                 out.writeOptionalTimeValue(failuresGlobalRetention == null ? null : failuresGlobalRetention.defaultRetention());
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/lifecycle/ExplainDataStreamLifecycleAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/lifecycle/ExplainDataStreamLifecycleAction.java
index 601a30356c113..a41a802f9ec9a 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/lifecycle/ExplainDataStreamLifecycleAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/datastreams/lifecycle/ExplainDataStreamLifecycleAction.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.action.datastreams.lifecycle;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequestValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionResponse;
@@ -143,6 +144,10 @@ public Request indicesOptions(IndicesOptions indicesOptions) {
      */
     public static class Response extends ActionResponse implements ChunkedToXContentObject {
         public static final ParseField INDICES_FIELD = new ParseField("indices");
+        private static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION = TransportVersion.fromName(
+            "" + "introduce_failures_default_retention"
+        );
+
         private final List<ExplainIndexDataStreamLifecycle> indices;
         @Nullable
         private final RolloverConfiguration rolloverConfiguration;
@@ -167,7 +172,7 @@ public Response(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             super(in);
             this.indices = in.readCollectionAsList(ExplainIndexDataStreamLifecycle::new);
             this.rolloverConfiguration = in.readOptionalWriteable(RolloverConfiguration::new);
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION)) {
                 var defaultRetention = in.readOptionalTimeValue();
                 var maxRetention = in.readOptionalTimeValue();
                 var defaultFailuresRetention = in.readOptionalTimeValue();
@@ -209,7 +214,7 @@ private DataStreamGlobalRetention getGlobalRetentionForLifecycle(DataStreamLifec
         public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             out.writeCollection(indices);
             out.writeOptionalWriteable(rolloverConfiguration);
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_DEFAULT_RETENTION)) {
                 out.writeOptionalTimeValue(dataGlobalRetention == null ? null : dataGlobalRetention.defaultRetention());
                 out.writeOptionalTimeValue(dataGlobalRetention == null ? null : dataGlobalRetention.maxRetention());
                 out.writeOptionalTimeValue(failureGlobalRetention == null ? null : failureGlobalRetention.defaultRetention());
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
index 9c7722ec79528..0437db6b9eb7c 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopFieldDocs;
 import org.elasticsearch.ExceptionsHelper;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.IndicesRequest;
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ public class SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction extends AbstractSearchAsyncAction<S
 
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.class);
 
+    private static final TransportVersion BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION = TransportVersion.fromName("batched_query_phase_version");
+
     private final SearchProgressListener progressListener;
 
     // informations to track the best bottom top doc globally.
@@ -473,7 +475,7 @@ protected void doRun(Map<SearchShardIterator, Integer> shardIndexMap) {
                 return;
             }
             // must check both node and transport versions to correctly deal with BwC on proxy connections
-            if (connection.getTransportVersion().before(TransportVersions.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X)
+            if (connection.getTransportVersion().supports(BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION) == false
                 || connection.getNode().getVersionInformation().nodeVersion().before(Version.V_8_19_0)) {
                 executeWithoutBatching(routing, request);
                 return;
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/IndexComponentSelector.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/IndexComponentSelector.java
index a66f174fc4d8e..58703cbef3ecf 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/IndexComponentSelector.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/IndexComponentSelector.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.action.support;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ public enum IndexComponentSelector implements Writeable {
     DATA("data", (byte) 0),
     FAILURES("failures", (byte) 1);
 
+    private static final TransportVersion REMOVE_ALL_APPLICABLE_SELECTOR = TransportVersion.fromName("remove_all_applicable_selector");
+
     private final String key;
     private final byte id;
 
@@ -92,8 +94,7 @@ public static IndexComponentSelector getByKeyOrThrow(@Nullable String key) {
 
     public static IndexComponentSelector read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         byte id = in.readByte();
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.REMOVE_ALL_APPLICABLE_SELECTOR_BACKPORT_8_19)
-            || in.getTransportVersion().isPatchFrom(TransportVersions.REMOVE_ALL_APPLICABLE_SELECTOR_BACKPORT_8_18)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(REMOVE_ALL_APPLICABLE_SELECTOR)) {
             return getById(id);
         } else {
             // Legacy value ::*, converted to ::data
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamFailureStore.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamFailureStore.java
index d3b3763786b3c..3c187851ea385 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamFailureStore.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamFailureStore.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.Diff;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.SimpleDiffable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ public record DataStreamFailureStore(@Nullable Boolean enabled, @Nullable DataSt
         );
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE = TransportVersion.fromName("introduce_failures_lifecycle");
+
     /**
      *  @param enabled, true when the failure is enabled, false when it's disabled, null when it depends on other configuration. Currently,
      *                  null value is not supported because there are no other arguments
@@ -74,9 +76,7 @@ public record DataStreamFailureStore(@Nullable Boolean enabled, @Nullable DataSt
     public DataStreamFailureStore(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         this(
             in.readOptionalBoolean(),
-            in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
-                ? in.readOptionalWriteable(DataStreamLifecycle::new)
-                : null
+            in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE) ? in.readOptionalWriteable(DataStreamLifecycle::new) : null
         );
     }
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public static Diff<DataStreamFailureStore> readDiffFrom(StreamInput in) throws I
     @Override
     public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         out.writeOptionalBoolean(enabled);
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)) {
             out.writeOptionalWriteable(lifecycle);
         }
     }
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ public Template(@Nullable Boolean enabled, @Nullable DataStreamLifecycle.Templat
         @Override
         public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             ResettableValue.write(out, enabled, StreamOutput::writeBoolean);
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)) {
                 ResettableValue.write(out, lifecycle, (o, v) -> v.writeTo(o));
             }
         }
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         public static Template read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             ResettableValue<Boolean> enabled = ResettableValue.read(in, StreamInput::readBoolean);
             ResettableValue<DataStreamLifecycle.Template> lifecycle = ResettableValue.undefined();
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)) {
                 lifecycle = ResettableValue.read(in, DataStreamLifecycle.Template::read);
             }
             return new Template(enabled, lifecycle);
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamLifecycle.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamLifecycle.java
index 6be586f2d6944..444edb54b65d3 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamLifecycle.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamLifecycle.java
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ public class DataStreamLifecycle implements SimpleDiffable<DataStreamLifecycle>,
     private static final String DOWNSAMPLING_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR_MESSAGE =
         "Failure store lifecycle does not support downsampling, please remove the downsampling configuration.";
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE = TransportVersion.fromName("introduce_lifecycle_template");
+
     /**
      * Check if {@link #DATA_STREAMS_LIFECYCLE_ONLY_SETTING_NAME} is present and set to {@code true}, indicating that
      * we're running in a cluster configuration that is only expecting to use data streams lifecycles.
@@ -133,6 +135,8 @@ public static boolean isDataStreamsLifecycleOnlyMode(final Settings settings) {
         }, DOWNSAMPLING_FIELD, ObjectParser.ValueType.OBJECT_ARRAY_OR_NULL);
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE = TransportVersion.fromName("introduce_failures_lifecycle");
+
     private final LifecycleType lifecycleType;
     private final boolean enabled;
     @Nullable
@@ -327,7 +331,7 @@ public int hashCode() {
     @Override
     public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_9_X)) {
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                 out.writeOptionalTimeValue(dataRetention);
             } else {
                 writeLegacyOptionalValue(dataRetention, out, StreamOutput::writeTimeValue);
@@ -335,21 +339,21 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
 
         }
         if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ADDED_ENABLED_FLAG_VERSION)) {
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                 out.writeOptionalCollection(downsampling);
             } else {
                 writeLegacyOptionalValue(downsampling, out, StreamOutput::writeCollection);
             }
             out.writeBoolean(enabled());
         }
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)) {
             lifecycleType.writeTo(out);
         }
     }
 
     public DataStreamLifecycle(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_9_X)) {
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                 dataRetention = in.readOptionalTimeValue();
             } else {
                 dataRetention = readLegacyOptionalValue(in, StreamInput::readTimeValue);
@@ -358,7 +362,7 @@ public DataStreamLifecycle(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             dataRetention = null;
         }
         if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ADDED_ENABLED_FLAG_VERSION)) {
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                 downsampling = in.readOptionalCollectionAsList(DownsamplingRound::read);
             } else {
                 downsampling = readLegacyOptionalValue(in, is -> is.readCollectionAsList(DownsamplingRound::read));
@@ -368,9 +372,7 @@ public DataStreamLifecycle(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             downsampling = null;
             enabled = true;
         }
-        lifecycleType = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
-            ? LifecycleType.read(in)
-            : LifecycleType.DATA;
+        lifecycleType = in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE) ? LifecycleType.read(in) : LifecycleType.DATA;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -717,21 +719,21 @@ public record Template(
         public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             // The order of the fields is like this for bwc reasons
             if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_9_X)) {
-                if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+                if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                     ResettableValue.write(out, dataRetention, StreamOutput::writeTimeValue);
                 } else {
                     writeLegacyValue(out, dataRetention, StreamOutput::writeTimeValue);
                 }
             }
             if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ADDED_ENABLED_FLAG_VERSION)) {
-                if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+                if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                     ResettableValue.write(out, downsampling, StreamOutput::writeCollection);
                 } else {
                     writeLegacyValue(out, downsampling, StreamOutput::writeCollection);
                 }
                 out.writeBoolean(enabled);
             }
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)) {
                 lifecycleType.writeTo(out);
             }
         }
@@ -777,21 +779,21 @@ public static Template read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
 
             // The order of the fields is like this for bwc reasons
             if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_9_X)) {
-                if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+                if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                     dataRetention = ResettableValue.read(in, StreamInput::readTimeValue);
                 } else {
                     dataRetention = readLegacyValues(in, StreamInput::readTimeValue);
                 }
             }
             if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ADDED_ENABLED_FLAG_VERSION)) {
-                if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE_8_19)) {
+                if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_LIFECYCLE_TEMPLATE)) {
                     downsampling = ResettableValue.read(in, i -> i.readCollectionAsList(DownsamplingRound::read));
                 } else {
                     downsampling = readLegacyValues(in, i -> i.readCollectionAsList(DownsamplingRound::read));
                 }
                 enabled = in.readBoolean();
             }
-            var lifecycleTarget = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
+            var lifecycleTarget = in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)
                 ? LifecycleType.read(in)
                 : LifecycleType.DATA;
             return new Template(lifecycleTarget, enabled, dataRetention, downsampling);
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptions.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptions.java
index 84fe43195bde4..7ef9ed8bfbe2d 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptions.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptions.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.Diff;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.SimpleDiffable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ public record DataStreamOptions(@Nullable DataStreamFailureStore failureStore)
         );
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE = TransportVersion.fromName("introduce_failures_lifecycle");
+
     public static DataStreamOptions read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         return new DataStreamOptions(in.readOptionalWriteable(DataStreamFailureStore::new));
     }
@@ -73,9 +75,7 @@ public boolean isEmpty() {
 
     @Override
     public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
-            || failureStore == null
-            || failureStore().enabled() != null) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE) || failureStore == null || failureStore().enabled() != null) {
             out.writeOptionalWriteable(failureStore);
         } else {
             // When communicating with older versions we need to ensure we do not sent an invalid failure store config.
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ public Template(DataStreamFailureStore.Template template) {
 
         @Override
         public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)
                 || failureStore.get() == null
                 || failureStore().mapAndGet(DataStreamFailureStore.Template::enabled).get() != null) {
                 ResettableValue.write(out, failureStore, (o, v) -> v.writeTo(o));
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/InferenceFieldMetadata.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/InferenceFieldMetadata.java
index ac4a3330823f9..7e0aa32c6a4f5 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/InferenceFieldMetadata.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/InferenceFieldMetadata.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.Diff;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.SimpleDiffable;
@@ -26,8 +27,6 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
-import static org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions.SEMANTIC_TEXT_CHUNKING_CONFIG_8_19;
-
 /**
  * Contains inference field data for fields.
  * As inference is done in the coordinator node to avoid re-doing it at shard / replica level, the coordinator needs to check for the need
@@ -41,6 +40,8 @@ public final class InferenceFieldMetadata implements SimpleDiffable<InferenceFie
     private static final String SOURCE_FIELDS_FIELD = "source_fields";
     static final String CHUNKING_SETTINGS_FIELD = "chunking_settings";
 
+    private static final TransportVersion SEMANTIC_TEXT_CHUNKING_CONFIG = TransportVersion.fromName("semantic_text_chunking_config");
+
     private final String name;
     private final String inferenceId;
     private final String searchInferenceId;
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ public InferenceFieldMetadata(StreamInput input) throws IOException {
             this.searchInferenceId = this.inferenceId;
         }
         this.sourceFields = input.readStringArray();
-        if (input.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(SEMANTIC_TEXT_CHUNKING_CONFIG_8_19)) {
+        if (input.getTransportVersion().supports(SEMANTIC_TEXT_CHUNKING_CONFIG)) {
             this.chunkingSettings = input.readGenericMap();
         } else {
             this.chunkingSettings = null;
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             out.writeString(searchInferenceId);
         }
         out.writeStringArray(sourceFields);
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(SEMANTIC_TEXT_CHUNKING_CONFIG_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(SEMANTIC_TEXT_CHUNKING_CONFIG)) {
             out.writeGenericMap(chunkingSettings);
         }
     }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/Lucene.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/Lucene.java
index 80b089d11814c..24055dcf85834 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/Lucene.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/Lucene.java
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.ExceptionsHelper;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ public class Lucene {
 
     public static final TopDocs EMPTY_TOP_DOCS = new TopDocs(TOTAL_HITS_EQUAL_TO_ZERO, EMPTY_SCORE_DOCS);
 
+    private static final TransportVersion SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL = TransportVersion.fromName("search_incremental_top_docs_null");
+
     private Lucene() {}
 
     /**
@@ -385,7 +387,7 @@ public static void writeTotalHits(StreamOutput out, TotalHits totalHits) throws
      */
     public static void writeTopDocsIncludingShardIndex(StreamOutput out, TopDocs topDocs) throws IOException {
         if (topDocs == null) {
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL)) {
                 out.writeByte((byte) -1);
                 return;
             } else {
@@ -433,7 +435,7 @@ public static void writeSortFieldArray(StreamOutput out, SortField[] sortFields)
     public static TopDocs readTopDocsIncludingShardIndex(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         byte type = in.readByte();
         if (type == -1) {
-            assert in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19);
+            assert in.getTransportVersion().supports(SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL);
             return null;
         } else if (type == 0) {
             TotalHits totalHits = readTotalHits(in);
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/inference/MinimalServiceSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/inference/MinimalServiceSettings.java
index 39b768631a586..05f1bbe7259af 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/inference/MinimalServiceSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/inference/MinimalServiceSettings.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.inference;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.Diff;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.SimpleDiffable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
@@ -95,6 +94,10 @@ public static MinimalServiceSettings parse(XContentParser parser) throws IOExcep
         return PARSER.parse(parser, null);
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "inference_model_registry_metadata"
+    );
+
     public static MinimalServiceSettings textEmbedding(
         String serviceName,
         int dimensions,
@@ -161,7 +164,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA_8_19;
+        return INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QuerySearchResult.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QuerySearchResult.java
index 0ae1db709fddf..698006f324dc1 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QuerySearchResult.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QuerySearchResult.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.lucene.search.FieldDoc;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TotalHits;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.DelayableWriteable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
@@ -43,6 +44,9 @@
 import static org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.Lucene.writeTopDocs;
 
 public final class QuerySearchResult extends SearchPhaseResult {
+
+    private static final TransportVersion BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION = TransportVersion.fromName("batched_query_phase_version");
+
     private int from;
     private int size;
     private TopDocsAndMaxScore topDocsAndMaxScore;
@@ -93,7 +97,7 @@ public QuerySearchResult(StreamInput in, boolean delayedAggregations) throws IOE
         super(in);
         isNull = in.readBoolean();
         if (isNull == false) {
-            ShardSearchContextId id = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X)
+            ShardSearchContextId id = versionSupportsBatchedExecution(in.getTransportVersion())
                 ? in.readOptionalWriteable(ShardSearchContextId::new)
                 : new ShardSearchContextId(in);
             readFromWithId(id, in, delayedAggregations);
@@ -411,7 +415,7 @@ private void readFromWithId(ShardSearchContextId id, StreamInput in, boolean del
                 sortValueFormats[i] = in.readNamedWriteable(DocValueFormat.class);
             }
         }
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X)) {
+        if (versionSupportsBatchedExecution(in.getTransportVersion())) {
             if (in.readBoolean()) {
                 setTopDocs(readTopDocs(in));
             }
@@ -441,7 +445,7 @@ private void readFromWithId(ShardSearchContextId id, StreamInput in, boolean del
             setRescoreDocIds(new RescoreDocIds(in));
             if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_8_0)) {
                 rankShardResult = in.readOptionalNamedWriteable(RankShardResult.class);
-                if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X)) {
+                if (versionSupportsBatchedExecution(in.getTransportVersion())) {
                     reduced = in.readBoolean();
                 }
             }
@@ -462,7 +466,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         }
         out.writeBoolean(isNull);
         if (isNull == false) {
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X)) {
+            if (versionSupportsBatchedExecution(out.getTransportVersion())) {
                 out.writeOptionalWriteable(contextId);
             } else {
                 contextId.writeTo(out);
@@ -482,7 +486,7 @@ public void writeToNoId(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
                 out.writeNamedWriteable(sortValueFormats[i]);
             }
         }
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X)) {
+        if (versionSupportsBatchedExecution(out.getTransportVersion())) {
             if (topDocsAndMaxScore != null) {
                 out.writeBoolean(true);
                 writeTopDocs(out, topDocsAndMaxScore);
@@ -512,7 +516,7 @@ public void writeToNoId(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         } else if (rankShardResult != null) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("cannot serialize [rank] to version [" + out.getTransportVersion().toReleaseVersion() + "]");
         }
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION_BACKPORT_8_X)) {
+        if (versionSupportsBatchedExecution(out.getTransportVersion())) {
             out.writeBoolean(reduced);
         }
     }
@@ -562,4 +566,8 @@ public boolean hasReferences() {
         }
         return super.hasReferences();
     }
+
+    private static boolean versionSupportsBatchedExecution(TransportVersion transportVersion) {
+        return transportVersion.supports(BATCHED_QUERY_PHASE_VERSION);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/vectors/RescoreVectorBuilder.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/vectors/RescoreVectorBuilder.java
index 9bbe54d65061d..98cb674f46bd1 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/vectors/RescoreVectorBuilder.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/vectors/RescoreVectorBuilder.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.search.vectors;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchStatusException;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
@@ -23,8 +24,6 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
-import static org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions.RESCORE_VECTOR_ALLOW_ZERO_BACKPORT_8_19;
-
 public class RescoreVectorBuilder implements Writeable, ToXContentObject {
 
     public static final ParseField OVERSAMPLE_FIELD = new ParseField("oversample");
@@ -39,6 +38,8 @@ public class RescoreVectorBuilder implements Writeable, ToXContentObject {
         PARSER.declareFloat(ConstructingObjectParser.constructorArg(), OVERSAMPLE_FIELD);
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion RESCORE_VECTOR_ALLOW_ZERO = TransportVersion.fromName("rescore_vector_allow_zero");
+
     // Oversample is required as of now as it is the only field in the rescore vector
     private final float oversample;
 
@@ -57,12 +58,12 @@ public RescoreVectorBuilder(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
     @Override
     public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         // We don't want to serialize a `0` oversample to a node that doesn't know what to do with it.
-        if (oversample == NO_OVERSAMPLE && out.getTransportVersion().isPatchFrom(RESCORE_VECTOR_ALLOW_ZERO_BACKPORT_8_19) == false) {
+        if (oversample == NO_OVERSAMPLE && out.getTransportVersion().supports(RESCORE_VECTOR_ALLOW_ZERO) == false) {
             throw new ElasticsearchStatusException(
                 "[rescore_vector] does not support a 0 for ["
                     + OVERSAMPLE_FIELD.getPreferredName()
                     + "] before version ["
-                    + RESCORE_VECTOR_ALLOW_ZERO_BACKPORT_8_19.toReleaseVersion()
+                    + RESCORE_VECTOR_ALLOW_ZERO.toReleaseVersion()
                     + "]",
                 RestStatus.BAD_REQUEST
             );
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshaker.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshaker.java
index b0ae439469dd8..247ee275fc8d3 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshaker.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshaker.java
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 
 import org.elasticsearch.Build;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.node.DiscoveryNode;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference;
@@ -176,7 +175,8 @@ final class TransportHandshaker {
     );
 
     static final String HANDSHAKE_ACTION_NAME = "internal:tcp/handshake";
-    static final TransportVersion V8_19_FIRST_VERSION = TransportVersions.INITIAL_ELASTICSEARCH_8_19;
+    // requires an unreferable transport version for initial elasticsearch 8.19.0
+    static final TransportVersion V8_19_FIRST_VERSION = TransportVersion.fromId(8841000);
     private final ConcurrentMap<Long, HandshakeResponseHandler> pendingHandshakes = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
     private final CounterMetric numHandshakes = new CounterMetric();
 
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ private static TransportVersion ensureCompatibleVersion(
         if (TransportVersion.isCompatible(remoteTransportVersion)) {
             // Prevent log message headers from being added to the handshake response.
             try (var ignored = threadContext.stashContext()) {
-                if (remoteTransportVersion.before(V8_19_FIRST_VERSION)) {
+                if (remoteTransportVersion.supports(V8_19_FIRST_VERSION) == false) {
                     deprecationLogger.warn(
                         DeprecationCategory.OTHER,
                         "handshake_version",
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/amazon_bedrock_task_settings.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/amazon_bedrock_task_settings.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f00a3b1e121d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/amazon_bedrock_task_settings.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9049000,8841017
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/batched_query_phase_version.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/batched_query_phase_version.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7c900b614edf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/batched_query_phase_version.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9043000,8841019
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/cohere_bit_embedding_type_support_added.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/cohere_bit_embedding_type_support_added.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fdf1a6dc01fe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/cohere_bit_embedding_type_support_added.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9001000,8841001
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_aggregate_metric_double_block.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_aggregate_metric_double_block.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..aee5a5bf0eb7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_aggregate_metric_double_block.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9067000,8841024
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_aggregate_metric_double_literal.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_aggregate_metric_double_literal.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dbdbba968c132
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_aggregate_metric_double_literal.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9035000,8841012
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_driver_task_description.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_driver_task_description.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2d32559c9c56f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_driver_task_description.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9005000,9000004,8841030
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_failure_from_remote.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_failure_from_remote.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3afcf4081d1d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_failure_from_remote.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9030000,8841011
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_report_original_types.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_report_original_types.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9eea8dc6e328e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_report_original_types.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9038000,8841022
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_report_shard_partitioning.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_report_shard_partitioning.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c64c5d8086a54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_report_shard_partitioning.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9050000,8841029
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_retry_on_shard_level_failure.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_retry_on_shard_level_failure.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7352a947a2142
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_retry_on_shard_level_failure.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9006000,8841003
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_serialize_block_type_code.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_serialize_block_type_code.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..949f2ac7aabe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_serialize_block_type_code.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9026000,8841010
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_support_partial_results.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_support_partial_results.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..614bb5844f0f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/esql_support_partial_results.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9011000,8841004
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_add_timeout_put_endpoint.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_add_timeout_put_endpoint.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9740baf8793d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_add_timeout_put_endpoint.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9074000,8841028
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_context.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_context.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c820bb70fa461
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_context.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9028000,8841008
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_model_registry_metadata.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_model_registry_metadata.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d6d1f552440f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/inference_model_registry_metadata.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9032000,8841013
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_failures_default_retention.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_failures_default_retention.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..aa9d19fdaa749
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_failures_default_retention.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9071000,8841026
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_failures_lifecycle.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_failures_lifecycle.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..286d3901555cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_failures_lifecycle.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9065000,8841025
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_lifecycle_template.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_lifecycle_template.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b97823b66be57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/introduce_lifecycle_template.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9033000,8841014
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/jina_ai_embedding_type_support_added.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/jina_ai_embedding_type_support_added.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..61fd612150d2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/jina_ai_embedding_type_support_added.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9020000,8841006
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/ml_inference_deepseek.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/ml_inference_deepseek.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..eacd76ea81f3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/ml_inference_deepseek.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9029000,8841009
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/ml_inference_sagemaker.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/ml_inference_sagemaker.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8de9ad47b002d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/ml_inference_sagemaker.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9069000,8841021
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/pinned_retriever.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/pinned_retriever.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..60a4ff0325946
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/pinned_retriever.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9068000,8841023
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/remove_all_applicable_selector.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/remove_all_applicable_selector.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e7ae9b5a189fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/remove_all_applicable_selector.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9009000,9000005,8841002,8840001
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/rerank_common_options_added.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/rerank_common_options_added.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..417d7133f1129
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/rerank_common_options_added.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9037000,8841015
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/rescore_vector_allow_zero.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/rescore_vector_allow_zero.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e7e51312e1028
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/rescore_vector_allow_zero.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9039000,8841027
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/retry_ilm_async_action_require_error.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/retry_ilm_async_action_require_error.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d6fab97c9ccfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/retry_ilm_async_action_require_error.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9025000,9000007,8841007,8840002
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/search_incremental_top_docs_null.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/search_incremental_top_docs_null.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..70d2af1e5a47c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/search_incremental_top_docs_null.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9058000,8841020
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/semantic_text_chunking_config.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/semantic_text_chunking_config.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fdb4f7cbaf4ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/semantic_text_chunking_config.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9047000,8841018
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/voyage_ai_integration_added.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/voyage_ai_integration_added.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4dbe0b4cc618f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/referable/voyage_ai_integration_added.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9014000,8841005
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_remote_exception_8_19.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_remote_exception_8_19.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..241c4bbc5e2ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_remote_exception_8_19.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8841016
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_remote_exception_9_1.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_remote_exception_9_1.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e055ec06fb6ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_remote_exception_9_1.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9044000
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_search_incremental_top_docs_null.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_search_incremental_top_docs_null.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fc25db3d6d114
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/dead_search_incremental_top_docs_null.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9054000
diff --git a/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/initial_elasticsearch_8_19_0.csv b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/initial_elasticsearch_8_19_0.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..16c1a5e6cdf1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/main/resources/transport/definitions/unreferable/initial_elasticsearch_8_19_0.csv
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8841000
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersionTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersionTests.java
index e31732f872256..8ce55cc9be732 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersionTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/TransportVersionTests.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public class TransportVersionTests extends ESTestCase {
      * If the test fails, there is something wrong with your backport PR.
      */
     public void testMaximumAllowedTransportVersion() {
-        assertThat(TransportVersion.current().isPatchFrom(TransportVersions.INITIAL_ELASTICSEARCH_8_19), is(true));
+        assertThat(TransportVersion.current().isPatchFrom(TransportVersion.fromId(8841000)), is(true));
     }
 
     public void testVersionComparison() {
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ public void testTransportVersionsLocked() {
             "TransportVersions.java is locked. Generate transport versions with TransportVersion.fromName "
                 + "and generateTransportVersion gradle task",
             versions.get(versions.size() - 1).id(),
-            equalTo(8_841_0_30)
+            equalTo(8_840_0_00)
         );
     }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTemplateTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTemplateTests.java
index 9b7b545586599..048a701008b2d 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTemplateTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTemplateTests.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.AbstractXContentSerializingTestCase;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
@@ -128,16 +127,15 @@ public void testTemplateComposition() {
     }
 
     public void testBackwardCompatibility() throws IOException {
-        DataStreamOptions.Template result = copyInstance(
-            DataStreamOptions.Template.EMPTY,
-            TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19
-        );
+        TransportVersion searchIncrementalTopDocsNull = TransportVersion.fromName("search_incremental_top_docs_null");
+
+        DataStreamOptions.Template result = copyInstance(DataStreamOptions.Template.EMPTY, searchIncrementalTopDocsNull);
         assertThat(result, equalTo(DataStreamOptions.Template.EMPTY));
 
         DataStreamOptions.Template withEnabled = new DataStreamOptions.Template(
             new DataStreamFailureStore.Template(randomBoolean(), DataStreamLifecycleTemplateTests.randomFailuresLifecycleTemplate())
         );
-        result = copyInstance(withEnabled, TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19);
+        result = copyInstance(withEnabled, searchIncrementalTopDocsNull);
         assertThat(result.failureStore().get().enabled(), equalTo(withEnabled.failureStore().get().enabled()));
         assertThat(result.failureStore().get().lifecycle(), equalTo(ResettableValue.undefined()));
 
@@ -149,14 +147,14 @@ public void testBackwardCompatibility() throws IOException {
                     : ResettableValue.create(DataStreamLifecycleTemplateTests.randomFailuresLifecycleTemplate())
             )
         );
-        result = copyInstance(withoutEnabled, TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19);
+        result = copyInstance(withoutEnabled, searchIncrementalTopDocsNull);
         assertThat(result, equalTo(DataStreamOptions.Template.EMPTY));
 
         DataStreamOptions.Template withEnabledReset = new DataStreamOptions.Template(
             new DataStreamFailureStore.Template(ResettableValue.reset(), ResettableValue.undefined())
         );
 
-        result = copyInstance(withEnabledReset, TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19);
+        result = copyInstance(withEnabledReset, searchIncrementalTopDocsNull);
         assertThat(result, equalTo(new DataStreamOptions.Template(ResettableValue.reset())));
     }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTests.java
index 95b1a4038bfe3..25d1679e5d459 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/DataStreamOptionsTests.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.AbstractXContentSerializingTestCase;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
@@ -22,8 +21,6 @@
 
 public class DataStreamOptionsTests extends AbstractXContentSerializingTestCase<DataStreamOptions> {
 
-    private static final TransportVersion SETTINGS_IN_DATA_STREAMS = TransportVersion.fromName("settings_in_data_streams");
-
     @Override
     protected Writeable.Reader<DataStreamOptions> instanceReader() {
         return DataStreamOptions::read;
@@ -60,20 +57,22 @@ protected DataStreamOptions doParseInstance(XContentParser parser) throws IOExce
     }
 
     public void testBackwardCompatibility() throws IOException {
-        DataStreamOptions result = copyInstance(DataStreamOptions.EMPTY, TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19);
+        TransportVersion searchIncrementalTopDocsNull = TransportVersion.fromName("search_incremental_top_docs_null");
+
+        DataStreamOptions result = copyInstance(DataStreamOptions.EMPTY, searchIncrementalTopDocsNull);
         assertThat(result, equalTo(DataStreamOptions.EMPTY));
 
         DataStreamOptions withEnabled = new DataStreamOptions(
             new DataStreamFailureStore(randomBoolean(), DataStreamLifecycleTests.randomFailuresLifecycle())
         );
-        result = copyInstance(withEnabled, TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19);
+        result = copyInstance(withEnabled, searchIncrementalTopDocsNull);
         assertThat(result.failureStore().enabled(), equalTo(withEnabled.failureStore().enabled()));
         assertThat(result.failureStore().lifecycle(), nullValue());
 
         DataStreamOptions withoutEnabled = new DataStreamOptions(
             new DataStreamFailureStore(null, DataStreamLifecycleTests.randomFailuresLifecycle())
         );
-        result = copyInstance(withoutEnabled, TransportVersions.SEARCH_INCREMENTAL_TOP_DOCS_NULL_BACKPORT_8_19);
+        result = copyInstance(withoutEnabled, searchIncrementalTopDocsNull);
         assertThat(result, equalTo(DataStreamOptions.EMPTY));
     }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/IndexMetadataTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/IndexMetadataTests.java
index a976e37ee2cf1..d83e046436ec0 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/IndexMetadataTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/metadata/IndexMetadataTests.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.rollover.MaxAgeCondition;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.rollover.MaxDocsCondition;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.rollover.MaxPrimaryShardDocsCondition;
@@ -66,6 +67,8 @@
 
 public class IndexMetadataTests extends ESTestCase {
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_FAILURE_FROM_REMOTE = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_failure_from_remote");
+
     @Before
     public void setUp() throws Exception {
         super.setUp();
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshakerTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshakerTests.java
index 8d5acb7c067bb..3cd4ae49efd0d 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshakerTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/TransportHandshakerTests.java
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ public void testHandshakeResponseFromOlderNodeWithPatchedProtocol() throws Excep
     }
 
     private void assertDeprecationMessageIsLogged(TransportVersion remoteVersion, String remoteReleaseVersion, Object channel) {
-        if (remoteVersion.onOrAfter(TransportVersion.minimumCompatible()) && remoteVersion.before(V8_19_FIRST_VERSION)) {
+        if (remoteVersion.onOrAfter(TransportVersion.minimumCompatible()) && remoteVersion.supports(V8_19_FIRST_VERSION) == false) {
             assertWarnings(getDeprecationMessage(TransportVersion.current(), remoteVersion, remoteReleaseVersion, channel));
         }
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/datastreams/DataStreamFeatureSetUsage.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/datastreams/DataStreamFeatureSetUsage.java
index 725d6d018584b..7e79577733520 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/datastreams/DataStreamFeatureSetUsage.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/datastreams/DataStreamFeatureSetUsage.java
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ public record DataStreamStats(
         Map<String, DataStreamLifecycleFeatureSetUsage.GlobalRetentionStats> globalRetentionStats
     ) implements Writeable {
 
+        private static final TransportVersion INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE = TransportVersion.fromName("introduce_failures_lifecycle");
+
         public DataStreamStats(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             this(
                 in.readVLong(),
@@ -134,15 +136,15 @@ public DataStreamStats(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
                 in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_15_0) ? in.readVLong() : 0,
                 in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.FAILURE_STORE_ENABLED_BY_CLUSTER_SETTING) ? in.readVLong() : 0,
                 in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_15_0) ? in.readVLong() : 0,
-                in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19) ? in.readVLong() : 0,
-                in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19) ? in.readVLong() : 0,
-                in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
+                in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE) ? in.readVLong() : 0,
+                in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE) ? in.readVLong() : 0,
+                in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)
                     ? DataStreamLifecycleFeatureSetUsage.RetentionStats.read(in)
                     : DataStreamLifecycleFeatureSetUsage.RetentionStats.NO_DATA,
-                in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
+                in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)
                     ? DataStreamLifecycleFeatureSetUsage.RetentionStats.read(in)
                     : DataStreamLifecycleFeatureSetUsage.RetentionStats.NO_DATA,
-                in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)
+                in.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)
                     ? in.readMap(DataStreamLifecycleFeatureSetUsage.GlobalRetentionStats::new)
                     : Map.of()
             );
@@ -159,7 +161,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
                 }
                 out.writeVLong(this.failureStoreIndicesCount);
             }
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INTRODUCE_FAILURES_LIFECYCLE)) {
                 out.writeVLong(failuresLifecycleExplicitlyEnabledCount);
                 out.writeVLong(failuresLifecycleEffectivelyEnabledCount);
                 failuresLifecycleDataRetentionStats.writeTo(out);
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ilm/action/RetryActionRequest.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ilm/action/RetryActionRequest.java
index d7a6f46c532d6..bba30f52c673e 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ilm/action/RetryActionRequest.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ilm/action/RetryActionRequest.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ilm.action;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequestValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.IndicesRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.IndicesOptions;
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 public class RetryActionRequest extends AcknowledgedRequest<RetryActionRequest> implements IndicesRequest.Replaceable {
+
+    private static final TransportVersion RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "retry_ilm_async_action_require_error"
+    );
+
     private String[] indices;
     private IndicesOptions indicesOptions = IndicesOptions.strictExpandOpen();
     private boolean requireError = true;
@@ -34,8 +39,7 @@ public RetryActionRequest(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         super(in);
         this.indices = in.readStringArray();
         this.indicesOptions = IndicesOptions.readIndicesOptions(in);
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR_8_19)
-            || in.getTransportVersion().isPatchFrom(TransportVersions.RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR_8_18)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR)) {
             this.requireError = in.readBoolean();
         }
     }
@@ -79,8 +83,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         super.writeTo(out);
         out.writeStringArray(indices);
         indicesOptions.writeIndicesOptions(out);
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR_8_19)
-            || out.getTransportVersion().isPatchFrom(TransportVersions.RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR_8_18)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(RETRY_ILM_ASYNC_ACTION_REQUIRE_ERROR)) {
             out.writeBoolean(requireError);
         }
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/BaseInferenceActionRequest.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/BaseInferenceActionRequest.java
index 6947eb7d380f3..a1acbe8c3b8c2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/BaseInferenceActionRequest.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/BaseInferenceActionRequest.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.inference.action;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.LegacyActionRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
@@ -23,8 +24,9 @@
  */
 public abstract class BaseInferenceActionRequest extends LegacyActionRequest {
 
-    private boolean hasBeenRerouted;
+    private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_CONTEXT = TransportVersion.fromName("inference_context");
 
+    private boolean hasBeenRerouted;
     private final InferenceContext context;
 
     public BaseInferenceActionRequest(InferenceContext context) {
@@ -41,8 +43,7 @@ public BaseInferenceActionRequest(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             // a version pre-node-local-rate-limiting as already rerouted to maintain pre-node-local-rate-limiting behavior.
             this.hasBeenRerouted = true;
         }
-
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_CONTEXT_8_X)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INFERENCE_CONTEXT)) {
             this.context = new InferenceContext(in);
         } else {
             this.context = InferenceContext.EMPTY_INSTANCE;
@@ -73,8 +74,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_REQUEST_ADAPTIVE_RATE_LIMITING)) {
             out.writeBoolean(hasBeenRerouted);
         }
-
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_CONTEXT_8_X)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INFERENCE_CONTEXT)) {
             context.writeTo(out);
         }
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceAction.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceAction.java
index 96de7ee9f119b..748fc7ea3425f 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceAction.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceAction.java
@@ -94,6 +94,8 @@ public static Builder parseRequest(String inferenceEntityId, TaskType taskType,
             return builder;
         }
 
+        private static final TransportVersion RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("rerank_common_options_added");
+
         private final TaskType taskType;
         private final String inferenceEntityId;
         private final String query;
@@ -173,7 +175,6 @@ public Request(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             } else {
                 this.inputType = InputType.UNSPECIFIED;
             }
-
             if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_14_0)) {
                 this.query = in.readOptionalString();
                 this.inferenceTimeout = in.readTimeValue();
@@ -181,8 +182,7 @@ public Request(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
                 this.query = null;
                 this.inferenceTimeout = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
             }
-
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED_8_19)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED)) {
                 this.returnDocuments = in.readOptionalBoolean();
                 this.topN = in.readOptionalInt();
             } else {
@@ -294,17 +294,14 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
                 out.writeString(input.get(0));
             }
             out.writeGenericMap(taskSettings);
-
             if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_13_0)) {
                 out.writeEnum(getInputTypeToWrite(inputType, out.getTransportVersion()));
             }
-
             if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_14_0)) {
                 out.writeOptionalString(query);
                 out.writeTimeValue(inferenceTimeout);
             }
-
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED)) {
                 out.writeOptionalBoolean(returnDocuments);
                 out.writeOptionalInt(topN);
             }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionProxy.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionProxy.java
index 4746cf9d798cb..ee15c37ff6654 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionProxy.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionProxy.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.inference.action;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequestValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionType;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.LegacyActionRequest;
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ public InferenceActionProxy() {
 
     public static class Request extends LegacyActionRequest {
 
+        private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_CONTEXT = TransportVersion.fromName("inference_context");
+
         private final TaskType taskType;
         private final String inferenceEntityId;
         private final BytesReference content;
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ public Request(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             // streaming is not supported yet for transport traffic
             this.stream = false;
 
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_CONTEXT_8_X)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INFERENCE_CONTEXT)) {
                 this.context = new InferenceContext(in);
             } else {
                 this.context = InferenceContext.EMPTY_INSTANCE;
@@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             XContentHelper.writeTo(out, contentType);
             out.writeTimeValue(timeout);
 
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_CONTEXT_8_X)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INFERENCE_CONTEXT)) {
                 context.writeTo(out);
             }
         }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/PutInferenceModelAction.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/PutInferenceModelAction.java
index 5fea258446087..921e16dce3843 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/PutInferenceModelAction.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/PutInferenceModelAction.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.inference.action;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRequestValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionType;
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ public class PutInferenceModelAction extends ActionType<PutInferenceModelAction.
     public static final PutInferenceModelAction INSTANCE = new PutInferenceModelAction();
     public static final String NAME = "cluster:admin/xpack/inference/put";
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "inference_add_timeout_put_endpoint"
+    );
+
     public PutInferenceModelAction() {
         super(NAME);
     }
@@ -61,7 +65,7 @@ public Request(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             this.content = in.readBytesReference();
             this.contentType = in.readEnum(XContentType.class);
 
-            if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT_8_19)) {
+            if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT)) {
                 this.timeout = in.readTimeValue();
             } else {
                 this.timeout = InferenceAction.Request.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
@@ -96,7 +100,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             out.writeBytesReference(content);
             XContentHelper.writeTo(out, contentType);
 
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT)) {
                 out.writeTimeValue(timeout);
             }
         }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionRequestTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionRequestTests.java
index ce8580e6a3c49..2361eb06bade6 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionRequestTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/InferenceActionRequestTests.java
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
 
 public class InferenceActionRequestTests extends AbstractBWCWireSerializationTestCase<InferenceAction.Request> {
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_CONTEXT = TransportVersion.fromName("inference_context");
+    private static final TransportVersion RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("rerank_common_options_added");
+
     @Override
     protected Writeable.Reader<InferenceAction.Request> instanceReader() {
         return InferenceAction.Request::new;
@@ -657,7 +660,7 @@ protected InferenceAction.Request mutateInstanceForVersion(InferenceAction.Reque
                             InferenceAction.Request.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
                             false
                         );
-                    } else if (version.before(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_CONTEXT_8_X)) {
+                    } else if (version.supports(INFERENCE_CONTEXT) == false) {
                         mutated = new InferenceAction.Request(
                             instance.getTaskType(),
                             instance.getInferenceEntityId(),
@@ -671,7 +674,7 @@ protected InferenceAction.Request mutateInstanceForVersion(InferenceAction.Reque
                             false,
                             InferenceContext.EMPTY_INSTANCE
                         );
-                    } else if (version.before(TransportVersions.RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED_8_19)) {
+                    } else if (version.supports(RERANK_COMMON_OPTIONS_ADDED) == false) {
                         mutated = new InferenceAction.Request(
                             instance.getTaskType(),
                             instance.getInferenceEntityId(),
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/UnifiedCompletionActionRequestTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/UnifiedCompletionActionRequestTests.java
index c76e187f2fbb1..f32bcc5d92804 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/UnifiedCompletionActionRequestTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/inference/action/UnifiedCompletionActionRequestTests.java
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 
 public class UnifiedCompletionActionRequestTests extends AbstractBWCWireSerializationTestCase<UnifiedCompletionAction.Request> {
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_CONTEXT = TransportVersion.fromName("inference_context");
+
     public void testValidation_ReturnsException_When_UnifiedCompletionRequestMessage_Is_Null() {
         var request = new UnifiedCompletionAction.Request(
             "inference_id",
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ public void testWriteTo_WhenVersionIsBeforeInferenceContext_ShouldSetContextToEm
 
     @Override
     protected UnifiedCompletionAction.Request mutateInstanceForVersion(UnifiedCompletionAction.Request instance, TransportVersion version) {
-        if (version.before(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_CONTEXT_8_X)) {
+        if (version.supports(INFERENCE_CONTEXT) == false) {
             return new UnifiedCompletionAction.Request(
                 instance.getInferenceEntityId(),
                 instance.getTaskType(),
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql-core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/core/type/UnsupportedEsField.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql-core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/core/type/UnsupportedEsField.java
index a0935aa2b453a..d830d2c1a66c4 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql-core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/core/type/UnsupportedEsField.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql-core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/core/type/UnsupportedEsField.java
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  */
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.core.type;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.core.util.PlanStreamInput;
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
  */
 public class UnsupportedEsField extends EsField {
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_report_original_types");
+
     private final List<String> originalTypes;
     private final String inherited; // for fields belonging to parents (or grandparents) that have an unsupported type
 
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ public UnsupportedEsField(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
     }
 
     private static List<String> readOriginalTypes(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES)) {
             return in.readCollectionAsList(i -> ((PlanStreamInput) i).readCachedString());
         } else {
             return List.of(readCachedStringWithVersionCheck(in).split(","));
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ private static List<String> readOriginalTypes(StreamInput in) throws IOException
     @Override
     public void writeContent(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         writeCachedStringWithVersionCheck(out, getName());
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES)) {
             out.writeCollection(getOriginalTypes(), (o, s) -> ((PlanStreamOutput) o).writeCachedString(s));
         } else {
             writeCachedStringWithVersionCheck(out, String.join(",", getOriginalTypes()));
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/AggregateMetricDoubleBlockBuilder.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/AggregateMetricDoubleBlockBuilder.java
index c97f155e76d33..60f9a95d69302 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/AggregateMetricDoubleBlockBuilder.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/AggregateMetricDoubleBlockBuilder.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.compute.data;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.GenericNamedWriteable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
@@ -173,6 +172,11 @@ public String getLabel() {
     }
 
     public record AggregateMetricDoubleLiteral(Double min, Double max, Double sum, Integer count) implements GenericNamedWriteable {
+
+        private static final TransportVersion ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_LITERAL = TransportVersion.fromName(
+            "esql_aggregate_metric_double_literal"
+        );
+
         public AggregateMetricDoubleLiteral {
             min = (min == null || min.isNaN()) ? null : min;
             max = (max == null || max.isNaN()) ? null : max;
@@ -204,7 +208,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
 
         @Override
         public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-            return TransportVersions.ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_LITERAL;
+            return ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_LITERAL;
         }
 
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/Block.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/Block.java
index 33bebcad9192e..68c249608ce1f 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/Block.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/Block.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.RamUsageEstimator;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeValue;
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
  * the same block at the same time.
  */
 public interface Block extends Accountable, BlockLoader.Block, Writeable, RefCounted, Releasable {
+
+    TransportVersion ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_aggregate_metric_double_block");
+
     /**
      * The maximum number of values that can be added to one position via lookup.
      * TODO maybe make this everywhere?
@@ -344,7 +347,7 @@ static Block[] buildAll(Block.Builder... builders) {
      * This should be paired with {@link #readTypedBlock(BlockStreamInput)}
      */
     static void writeTypedBlock(Block block, StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().before(TransportVersions.ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK_8_19)
+        if (supportsAggregateMetricDoubleBlock(out.getTransportVersion()) == false
             && block instanceof AggregateMetricDoubleArrayBlock aggregateMetricDoubleBlock) {
             block = aggregateMetricDoubleBlock.asCompositeBlock();
         }
@@ -359,13 +362,16 @@ static void writeTypedBlock(Block block, StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
     static Block readTypedBlock(BlockStreamInput in) throws IOException {
         ElementType elementType = ElementType.readFrom(in);
         Block block = elementType.reader.readBlock(in);
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().before(TransportVersions.ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK_8_19)
-            && block instanceof CompositeBlock compositeBlock) {
+        if (supportsAggregateMetricDoubleBlock(in.getTransportVersion()) == false && block instanceof CompositeBlock compositeBlock) {
             block = AggregateMetricDoubleArrayBlock.fromCompositeBlock(compositeBlock);
         }
         return block;
     }
 
+    static boolean supportsAggregateMetricDoubleBlock(TransportVersion version) {
+        return version.supports(ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Serialization type for blocks: 0 and 1 replace false/true used in pre-8.14
      */
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/ElementType.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/ElementType.java
index 214a8e256b952..5202231067787 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/ElementType.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/ElementType.java
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.compute.data;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ public enum ElementType {
         AggregateMetricDoubleArrayBlock::readFrom
     );
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_SERIALIZE_BLOCK_TYPE_CODE = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_serialize_block_type_code");
+
     private interface BuilderSupplier {
         Block.Builder newBlockBuilder(BlockFactory blockFactory, int estimatedSize);
     }
@@ -137,7 +139,7 @@ public String pascalCaseName() {
      * Read element type from an input stream
      */
     static ElementType readFrom(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_SERIALIZE_BLOCK_TYPE_CODE)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_SERIALIZE_BLOCK_TYPE_CODE)) {
             byte b = in.readByte();
             return values()[b];
         } else {
@@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ static ElementType readFrom(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
     }
 
     void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_SERIALIZE_BLOCK_TYPE_CODE)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_SERIALIZE_BLOCK_TYPE_CODE)) {
             out.writeByte(writableCode);
         } else {
             out.writeString(legacyWritableName);
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/lucene/LuceneOperator.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/lucene/LuceneOperator.java
index 661fda846e724..7f4dcc64e344e 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/lucene/LuceneOperator.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/lucene/LuceneOperator.java
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
 import java.util.function.Function;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-import static org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions.ESQL_REPORT_SHARD_PARTITIONING_8_19;
-
 public abstract class LuceneOperator extends SourceOperator {
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(LuceneOperator.class);
 
@@ -273,6 +271,8 @@ public static class Status implements Operator.Status {
             Status::new
         );
 
+        private static final TransportVersion ESQL_REPORT_SHARD_PARTITIONING = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_report_shard_partitioning");
+
         private final int processedSlices;
         private final Set<String> processedQueries;
         private final Set<String> processedShards;
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ private Status(LuceneOperator operator) {
             } else {
                 rowsEmitted = 0;
             }
-            partitioningStrategies = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ESQL_REPORT_SHARD_PARTITIONING_8_19)
+            partitioningStrategies = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ESQL_REPORT_SHARD_PARTITIONING)
                 ? in.readMap(LuceneSliceQueue.PartitioningStrategy::readFrom)
                 : Map.of();
         }
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_PROFILE_ROWS_PROCESSED)) {
                 out.writeVLong(rowsEmitted);
             }
-            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ESQL_REPORT_SHARD_PARTITIONING_8_19)) {
+            if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(ESQL_REPORT_SHARD_PARTITIONING)) {
                 out.writeMap(partitioningStrategies, StreamOutput::writeString, StreamOutput::writeWriteable);
             }
         }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverProfile.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverProfile.java
index 9fb4c1ad74f14..3bbc1bc1a1af6 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverProfile.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverProfile.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.compute.operator;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
@@ -26,6 +27,9 @@
  * Profile results from a single {@link Driver}.
  */
 public class DriverProfile implements Writeable, ChunkedToXContentObject {
+
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_driver_task_description");
+
     /**
      * Description of the task this driver is running. This description should be
      * short and meaningful as a grouping identifier. We use the phase of the
@@ -88,9 +92,7 @@ public DriverProfile(
     }
 
     public DriverProfile(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
-        this.taskDescription = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION_8_19)
-            ? in.readString()
-            : "";
+        this.taskDescription = in.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION) ? in.readString() : "";
         if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_16_0)) {
             this.startMillis = in.readVLong();
             this.stopMillis = in.readVLong();
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ public DriverProfile(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
 
     @Override
     public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION)) {
             out.writeString(taskDescription);
         }
         if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_16_0)) {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverStatus.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverStatus.java
index 91ab480b843e0..a96fff715536c 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverStatus.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/operator/DriverStatus.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.compute.operator;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
@@ -34,6 +35,8 @@ public class DriverStatus implements Task.Status {
         DriverStatus::new
     );
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_driver_task_description");
+
     /**
      * The session for this driver.
      */
@@ -109,9 +112,7 @@ public class DriverStatus implements Task.Status {
 
     public DriverStatus(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         this.sessionId = in.readString();
-        this.taskDescription = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION_8_19)
-            ? in.readString()
-            : "";
+        this.taskDescription = in.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION) ? in.readString() : "";
         this.started = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_14_0) ? in.readLong() : 0;
         this.lastUpdated = in.readLong();
         this.cpuNanos = in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_14_0) ? in.readVLong() : 0;
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ public DriverStatus(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
     @Override
     public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         out.writeString(sessionId);
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_DRIVER_TASK_DESCRIPTION)) {
             out.writeString(taskDescription);
         }
         if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_14_0)) {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/BlockSerializationTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/BlockSerializationTests.java
index 3a03acf983c32..33a3ebd296aad 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/BlockSerializationTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/compute/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/compute/data/BlockSerializationTests.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.breaker.CircuitBreaker;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.breaker.CircuitBreakingException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeValue;
@@ -36,6 +35,10 @@
 
 public class BlockSerializationTests extends SerializationTestCase {
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "esql_aggregate_metric_double_block"
+    );
+
     public void testConstantIntBlock() throws IOException {
         assertConstantBlockImpl(blockFactory.newConstantIntBlockWith(randomInt(), randomIntBetween(1, 8192)));
     }
@@ -389,11 +392,7 @@ public void testCompositeBlock() throws Exception {
             try (
                 CompositeBlock deserBlock = serializeDeserializeBlockWithVersion(
                     origBlock,
-                    TransportVersionUtils.randomVersionBetween(
-                        random(),
-                        TransportVersions.ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK_8_19,
-                        TransportVersion.current()
-                    )
+                    TransportVersionUtils.randomVersionBetween(random(), ESQL_AGGREGATE_METRIC_DOUBLE_BLOCK, TransportVersion.current())
                 )
             ) {
                 assertThat(deserBlock.getBlockCount(), equalTo(numBlocks));
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/ColumnInfoImpl.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/ColumnInfoImpl.java
index 56be3ac21f38d..2f244b391cd2e 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/ColumnInfoImpl.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/action/ColumnInfoImpl.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.action;
 
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.Nullable;
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ public class ColumnInfoImpl implements ColumnInfo {
         PARSER = parser.build();
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_report_original_types");
+
     @Override
     public boolean equals(Object o) {
         if (this == o) {
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ public ColumnInfoImpl(String name, DataType type, @Nullable List<String> origina
     public ColumnInfoImpl(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         this.name = in.readString();
         this.type = DataType.fromEs(in.readString());
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES)) {
             this.originalTypes = in.readOptionalStringCollectionAsList();
         } else {
             this.originalTypes = null;
@@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ public ColumnInfoImpl(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
     public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         out.writeString(name);
         out.writeString(type.outputType());
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_REPORT_ORIGINAL_TYPES)) {
             out.writeOptionalStringCollection(originalTypes);
         }
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/ComputeResponse.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/ComputeResponse.java
index fc175672a845d..67bd040583552 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/ComputeResponse.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/ComputeResponse.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  */
 final class ComputeResponse extends TransportResponse {
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_FAILURE_FROM_REMOTE = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_failure_from_remote");
     private static final TransportVersion ESQL_DOCUMENTS_FOUND_AND_VALUES_LOADED = TransportVersion.fromName(
         "esql_documents_found_and_values_loaded"
     );
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ final class ComputeResponse extends TransportResponse {
             this.skippedShards = 0;
             this.failedShards = 0;
         }
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_FAILURE_FROM_REMOTE)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_FAILURE_FROM_REMOTE)) {
             this.failures = in.readCollectionAsImmutableList(ShardSearchFailure::readShardSearchFailure);
         } else {
             this.failures = List.of();
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             out.writeVInt(skippedShards);
             out.writeVInt(failedShards);
         }
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_FAILURE_FROM_REMOTE)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_FAILURE_FROM_REMOTE)) {
             out.writeCollection(failures, (o, v) -> v.writeTo(o));
         }
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/DataNodeComputeHandler.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/DataNodeComputeHandler.java
index d0811c75e6c95..23e265278daef 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/DataNodeComputeHandler.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/plugin/DataNodeComputeHandler.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.plugin;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListenerResponseHandler;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionRunnable;
@@ -65,6 +64,11 @@
  * and executing these computes on the data nodes.
  */
 final class DataNodeComputeHandler implements TransportRequestHandler<DataNodeRequest> {
+
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_RETRY_ON_SHARD_LEVEL_FAILURE = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "esql_retry_on_shard_level_failure"
+    );
+
     private final ComputeService computeService;
     private final ClusterService clusterService;
     private final SearchService searchService;
@@ -502,6 +506,6 @@ public void messageReceived(DataNodeRequest request, TransportChannel channel, T
     }
 
     static boolean supportShardLevelRetryFailure(TransportVersion transportVersion) {
-        return transportVersion.onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_RETRY_ON_SHARD_LEVEL_FAILURE_BACKPORT_8_19);
+        return transportVersion.supports(ESQL_RETRY_ON_SHARD_LEVEL_FAILURE);
     }
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/session/Configuration.java b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/session/Configuration.java
index b6fb78ff54f65..82712aceb039f 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/session/Configuration.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/esql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/esql/session/Configuration.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.session;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesArray;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.compress.CompressorFactory;
@@ -35,6 +36,8 @@ public class Configuration implements Writeable {
 
     public static final int QUERY_COMPRESS_THRESHOLD_CHARS = KB.toIntBytes(5);
 
+    private static final TransportVersion ESQL_SUPPORT_PARTIAL_RESULTS = TransportVersion.fromName("esql_support_partial_results");
+
     private final String clusterName;
     private final String username;
     private final ZonedDateTime now;
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ public Configuration(BlockStreamInput in) throws IOException {
         } else {
             this.queryStartTimeNanos = -1;
         }
-        if (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_SUPPORT_PARTIAL_RESULTS_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (in.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_SUPPORT_PARTIAL_RESULTS)) {
             this.allowPartialResults = in.readBoolean();
         } else {
             this.allowPartialResults = false;
@@ -139,7 +142,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_16_0)) {
             out.writeLong(queryStartTimeNanos);
         }
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.ESQL_SUPPORT_PARTIAL_RESULTS_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(ESQL_SUPPORT_PARTIAL_RESULTS)) {
             out.writeBoolean(allowPartialResults);
         }
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/registry/ModelRegistryMetadata.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/registry/ModelRegistryMetadata.java
index 02f5ff161265a..43e811fa4db5f 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/registry/ModelRegistryMetadata.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/registry/ModelRegistryMetadata.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.registry;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.Diff;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.DiffableUtils;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.NamedDiff;
@@ -87,6 +86,10 @@ public static ModelRegistryMetadata fromState(Metadata metadata) {
         return resp != null ? resp : EMPTY_NOT_UPGRADED;
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "inference_model_registry_metadata"
+    );
+
     public ModelRegistryMetadata withAddedModel(String inferenceEntityId, MinimalServiceSettings settings) {
         final var existing = modelMap.get(inferenceEntityId);
         if (existing != null && settings.equals(existing)) {
@@ -176,7 +179,7 @@ public Iterator<? extends ToXContent> toXContentChunked(ToXContent.Params params
     }
 
     /**
-     * Determines whether all models created prior to {@link TransportVersions#INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA_8_19}
+     * Determines whether all models created prior to {@link #INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA}
      * have been successfully restored from the {@link InferenceIndex}.
      *
      * @return true if all such models have been restored; false otherwise.
@@ -226,7 +229,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA_8_19;
+        return INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -292,7 +295,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
         @Override
         public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-            return TransportVersions.INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA_8_19;
+            return INFERENCE_MODEL_REGISTRY_METADATA;
         }
 
         @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/amazonbedrock/embeddings/AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/amazonbedrock/embeddings/AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java
index e08d89bc40277..1d08c6ea812f6 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/amazonbedrock/embeddings/AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/amazonbedrock/embeddings/AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.amazonbedrock.embeddings;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@
 public record AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings(@Nullable CohereTruncation cohereTruncation) implements TaskSettings {
     public static final AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings EMPTY = new AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings((CohereTruncation) null);
     public static final String NAME = "amazon_bedrock_embeddings_task_settings";
+    private static final TransportVersion AMAZON_BEDROCK_TASK_SETTINGS = TransportVersion.fromName("amazon_bedrock_task_settings");
 
     public static AmazonBedrockEmbeddingsTaskSettings fromMap(Map<String, Object> map) {
         if (map == null || map.isEmpty()) {
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.AMAZON_BEDROCK_TASK_SETTINGS_8_19;
+        return AMAZON_BEDROCK_TASK_SETTINGS;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingType.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingType.java
index 2fc70431076a6..c728d22845f7b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingType.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingType.java
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ private static final class RequestConstants {
         ELEMENT_TYPE_TO_COHERE_EMBEDDING.keySet()
     );
 
+    private static final TransportVersion COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "cohere_bit_embedding_type_support_added"
+    );
+
     private final DenseVectorFieldMapper.ElementType elementType;
     private final String requestString;
 
@@ -128,7 +132,7 @@ public static CohereEmbeddingType translateToVersion(CohereEmbeddingType embeddi
         }
 
         if (embeddingType == BIT) {
-            if (version.onOrAfter(TransportVersions.COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X)) {
+            if (version.supports(COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED)) {
                 // BIT embedding type is supported in these versions
                 return embeddingType;
             } else {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekChatCompletionModel.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekChatCompletionModel.java
index bea86596eaa3a..2a3a6b341dcf2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekChatCompletionModel.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekChatCompletionModel.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.deepseek;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
@@ -160,6 +159,7 @@ public RateLimitSettings rateLimitSettings() {
 
     private record DeepSeekServiceSettings(String modelId, URI uri) implements ServiceSettings {
         private static final String NAME = "deep_seek_service_settings";
+        private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_DEEPSEEK = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_deepseek");
 
         DeepSeekServiceSettings {
             Objects.requireNonNull(modelId);
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
         @Override
         public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-            return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_DEEPSEEK_8_19;
+            return ML_INFERENCE_DEEPSEEK;
         }
 
         @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekService.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekService.java
index 5e137e7f032fa..faf84693bf355 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekService.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/deepseek/DeepSeekService.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.deepseek;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.util.LazyInitializable;
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@ public class DeepSeekService extends SenderService {
         TaskType.CHAT_COMPLETION
     );
     private static final EnumSet<TaskType> SUPPORTED_TASK_TYPES_FOR_STREAMING = EnumSet.of(TaskType.COMPLETION, TaskType.CHAT_COMPLETION);
+    private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_DEEPSEEK = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_deepseek");
 
     public DeepSeekService(HttpRequestSender.Factory factory, ServiceComponents serviceComponents) {
         super(factory, serviceComponents);
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ public EnumSet<TaskType> supportedTaskTypes() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_DEEPSEEK_8_19;
+        return ML_INFERENCE_DEEPSEEK;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingType.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingType.java
index 66b534fb132a7..b0924b5ac6f5b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingType.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingType.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.jinaai.embeddings;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.vectors.DenseVectorFieldMapper;
 
@@ -50,6 +49,10 @@ private static final class RequestConstants {
         ELEMENT_TYPE_TO_JINA_AI_EMBEDDING.keySet()
     );
 
+    private static final TransportVersion JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "jina_ai_embedding_type_support_added"
+    );
+
     private final DenseVectorFieldMapper.ElementType elementType;
     private final String requestString;
 
@@ -109,7 +112,7 @@ public DenseVectorFieldMapper.ElementType toElementType() {
      * @return the embedding type that is known to the version passed in
      */
     public static JinaAIEmbeddingType translateToVersion(JinaAIEmbeddingType embeddingType, TransportVersion version) {
-        if (version.onOrAfter(TransportVersions.JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (version.supports(JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED)) {
             return embeddingType;
         }
 
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java
index bc94143be7e2e..4efc6315b3dee 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ static JinaAIEmbeddingType parseEmbeddingType(Map<String, Object> map, Validatio
         );
     }
 
+    private static final TransportVersion JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "jina_ai_embedding_type_support_added"
+    );
+
     private final JinaAIServiceSettings commonSettings;
     private final SimilarityMeasure similarity;
     private final Integer dimensions;
@@ -94,8 +98,7 @@ public JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         this.similarity = in.readOptionalEnum(SimilarityMeasure.class);
         this.dimensions = in.readOptionalVInt();
         this.maxInputTokens = in.readOptionalVInt();
-
-        this.embeddingType = (in.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_19))
+        this.embeddingType = (in.getTransportVersion().supports(JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED))
             ? Objects.requireNonNullElse(in.readOptionalEnum(JinaAIEmbeddingType.class), JinaAIEmbeddingType.FLOAT)
             : JinaAIEmbeddingType.FLOAT;
     }
@@ -179,8 +182,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
         out.writeOptionalEnum(SimilarityMeasure.translateSimilarity(similarity, out.getTransportVersion()));
         out.writeOptionalVInt(dimensions);
         out.writeOptionalVInt(maxInputTokens);
-
-        if (out.getTransportVersion().onOrAfter(TransportVersions.JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (out.getTransportVersion().supports(JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED)) {
             out.writeOptionalEnum(JinaAIEmbeddingType.translateToVersion(embeddingType, out.getTransportVersion()));
         }
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/SageMakerService.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/SageMakerService.java
index f1962dc107c1a..800c88649cc97 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/SageMakerService.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/SageMakerService.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchStatusException;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.SubscribableListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.CheckedSupplier;
@@ -50,6 +49,8 @@ public class SageMakerService implements InferenceService {
     private static final List<String> ALIASES = List.of("sagemaker", "amazonsagemaker");
     private static final int DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE = 256;
     private static final TimeValue DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = TimeValue.THIRTY_SECONDS;
+    private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_sagemaker");
+
     private final SageMakerModelBuilder modelBuilder;
     private final SageMakerClient client;
     private final SageMakerSchemas schemas;
@@ -303,7 +304,7 @@ public Model updateModelWithEmbeddingDetails(Model model, int embeddingSize) {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER_8_19;
+        return ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerServiceSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerServiceSettings.java
index b08943707e086..b8d6b0dc59e53 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerServiceSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerServiceSettings.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.sagemaker.model;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -58,6 +57,7 @@ record SageMakerServiceSettings(
     private static final String TARGET_CONTAINER_HOSTNAME = "target_container_hostname";
     private static final String INFERENCE_COMPONENT_NAME = "inference_component_name";
     private static final String BATCH_SIZE = "batch_size";
+    private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_sagemaker");
 
     SageMakerServiceSettings {
         Objects.requireNonNull(endpointName);
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER_8_19;
+        return ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerTaskSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerTaskSettings.java
index 829a92edfe622..cac87191193e2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerTaskSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/model/SageMakerTaskSettings.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.sagemaker.model;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -46,6 +45,7 @@ record SageMakerTaskSettings(
     private static final String INFERENCE_ID = "inference_id";
     private static final String SESSION_ID = "session_id";
     private static final String TARGET_VARIANT = "target_variant";
+    private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_sagemaker");
 
     SageMakerTaskSettings(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
         this(
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER_8_19;
+        return ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredServiceSchema.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredServiceSchema.java
index 96c1e10391347..9f6f3098ea562 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredServiceSchema.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredServiceSchema.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.sagemaker.schema;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.inference.ServiceSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ToXContentObject;
@@ -21,6 +20,7 @@ public interface SageMakerStoredServiceSchema extends ServiceSettings {
     SageMakerStoredServiceSchema NO_OP = new SageMakerStoredServiceSchema() {
 
         private static final String NAME = "noop_sagemaker_service_schema";
+        private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_sagemaker");
 
         @Override
         public String getWriteableName() {
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
         @Override
         public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-            return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER_8_19;
+            return ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER;
         }
 
         @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredTaskSchema.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredTaskSchema.java
index e19a4c0550a7e..b97354118c023 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredTaskSchema.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/SageMakerStoredTaskSchema.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.sagemaker.schema;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.inference.TaskSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
@@ -20,6 +19,9 @@
  */
 public interface SageMakerStoredTaskSchema extends TaskSettings {
     SageMakerStoredTaskSchema NO_OP = new SageMakerStoredTaskSchema() {
+
+        private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_sagemaker");
+
         @Override
         public boolean isEmpty() {
             return true;
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
         @Override
         public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-            return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER_8_19;
+            return ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER;
         }
 
         @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/openai/OpenAiTextEmbeddingPayload.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/openai/OpenAiTextEmbeddingPayload.java
index 757a26bf1d884..785ae74dc24bb 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/openai/OpenAiTextEmbeddingPayload.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/sagemaker/schema/openai/OpenAiTextEmbeddingPayload.java
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sagemakerruntime.model.InvokeEndpointResponse;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
@@ -126,6 +125,7 @@ public TextEmbeddingFloatResults responseBody(SageMakerModel model, InvokeEndpoi
     record ApiServiceSettings(@Nullable Integer dimensions, Boolean dimensionsSetByUser) implements SageMakerStoredServiceSchema {
         private static final String NAME = "sagemaker_openai_text_embeddings_service_settings";
         private static final String DIMENSIONS_FIELD = "dimensions";
+        private static final TransportVersion ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER = TransportVersion.fromName("ml_inference_sagemaker");
 
         ApiServiceSettings(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             this(in.readOptionalInt(), in.readBoolean());
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
         @Override
         public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-            return TransportVersions.ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER_8_19;
+            return ML_INFERENCE_SAGEMAKER;
         }
 
         @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIService.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIService.java
index f4ed01b9f53bf..6b45afe75c990 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIService.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIService.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchStatusException;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ActionListener;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.util.LazyInitializable;
@@ -97,6 +96,8 @@ public class VoyageAIService extends SenderService {
         InputType.INTERNAL_SEARCH
     );
 
+    private static final TransportVersion VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("voyage_ai_integration_added");
+
     public VoyageAIService(HttpRequestSender.Factory factory, ServiceComponents serviceComponents) {
         super(factory, serviceComponents);
     }
@@ -357,7 +358,7 @@ static SimilarityMeasure defaultSimilarity() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X;
+        return VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED;
     }
 
     public static class Configuration {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIServiceSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIServiceSettings.java
index e59a339a50553..4a8a47c3b7c6b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIServiceSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/VoyageAIServiceSettings.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -35,6 +34,7 @@ public class VoyageAIServiceSettings extends FilteredXContentObject implements S
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(VoyageAIServiceSettings.class);
     // See https://docs.voyageai.com/docs/rate-limits
     public static final RateLimitSettings DEFAULT_RATE_LIMIT_SETTINGS = new RateLimitSettings(2_000);
+    private static final TransportVersion VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("voyage_ai_integration_added");
 
     public static VoyageAIServiceSettings fromMap(Map<String, Object> map, ConfigurationParseContext context) {
         ValidationException validationException = new ValidationException();
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ public XContentBuilder toXContentFragmentOfExposedFields(XContentBuilder builder
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X;
+        return VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java
index fd9c38dbcbfe4..29b63a91bbe06 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.voyageai.embeddings;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -48,6 +47,8 @@ public class VoyageAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings extends FilteredXContentObject im
 
     public static final String EMBEDDING_TYPE = "embedding_type";
 
+    private static final TransportVersion VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("voyage_ai_integration_added");
+
     public static VoyageAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings fromMap(Map<String, Object> map, ConfigurationParseContext context) {
         return switch (context) {
             case REQUEST -> fromRequestMap(map, context);
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ protected XContentBuilder toXContentFragmentOfExposedFields(XContentBuilder buil
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X;
+        return VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java
index 7373f615237d3..68f8e3c2975fb 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/embeddings/VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.voyageai.embeddings;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -41,6 +40,7 @@ public class VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings implements TaskSettings {
     public static final String NAME = "voyageai_embeddings_task_settings";
     public static final VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings EMPTY_SETTINGS = new VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings(null, null);
     static final String INPUT_TYPE = "input_type";
+    private static final TransportVersion VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("voyage_ai_integration_added");
 
     public static VoyageAIEmbeddingsTaskSettings fromMap(Map<String, Object> map) {
         if (map == null || map.isEmpty()) {
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X;
+        return VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankServiceSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankServiceSettings.java
index 2aa9d0ff5ecf3..feb2310c537f8 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankServiceSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankServiceSettings.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -31,6 +30,8 @@ public class VoyageAIRerankServiceSettings extends FilteredXContentObject implem
 
     private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(VoyageAIRerankServiceSettings.class);
 
+    private static final TransportVersion VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("voyage_ai_integration_added");
+
     public static VoyageAIRerankServiceSettings fromMap(Map<String, Object> map, ConfigurationParseContext context) {
         ValidationException validationException = new ValidationException();
 
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ protected XContentBuilder toXContentFragmentOfExposedFields(XContentBuilder buil
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X;
+        return VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings.java
index efedd3594edab..77a313278a4d2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/voyageai/rerank/VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.voyageai.rerank;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -38,6 +37,8 @@ public class VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings implements TaskSettings {
 
     public static final VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings EMPTY_SETTINGS = new VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings(null, null, null);
 
+    private static final TransportVersion VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName("voyage_ai_integration_added");
+
     public static VoyageAIRerankTaskSettings fromMap(Map<String, Object> map) {
         ValidationException validationException = new ValidationException();
 
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ public String getWriteableName() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X;
+        return VOYAGE_AI_INTEGRATION_ADDED;
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/action/PutInferenceModelRequestTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/action/PutInferenceModelRequestTests.java
index c07bc30944568..f4edfd9011051 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/action/PutInferenceModelRequestTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/action/PutInferenceModelRequestTests.java
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.AbstractBWCWireSerializationTestCase;
 
 public class PutInferenceModelRequestTests extends AbstractBWCWireSerializationTestCase<PutInferenceModelAction.Request> {
+
+    private static final TransportVersion INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "inference_add_timeout_put_endpoint"
+    );
+
     @Override
     protected Writeable.Reader<PutInferenceModelAction.Request> instanceReader() {
         return PutInferenceModelAction.Request::new;
@@ -40,7 +45,7 @@ protected PutInferenceModelAction.Request mutateInstance(PutInferenceModelAction
 
     @Override
     protected PutInferenceModelAction.Request mutateInstanceForVersion(PutInferenceModelAction.Request instance, TransportVersion version) {
-        if (version.onOrAfter(TransportVersions.INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT_8_19)) {
+        if (version.supports(INFERENCE_ADD_TIMEOUT_PUT_ENDPOINT)) {
             return instance;
         } else if (version.onOrAfter(TransportVersions.V_8_0_0)) {
             return new PutInferenceModelAction.Request(
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingTypeTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingTypeTests.java
index bc6207863ff9c..7d51d589644d6 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingTypeTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/cohere/embeddings/CohereEmbeddingTypeTests.java
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 
 public class CohereEmbeddingTypeTests extends ESTestCase {
+
+    private static final TransportVersion COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "cohere_bit_embedding_type_support_added"
+    );
+
     public void testTranslateToVersion_ReturnsInt8_WhenVersionIsBeforeByteEnumAddition_WhenSpecifyingByte() {
         assertThat(
             CohereEmbeddingType.translateToVersion(CohereEmbeddingType.BYTE, new TransportVersion(8_613_00_0)),
@@ -57,22 +62,16 @@ public void testTranslateToVersion_ReturnsInt8_WhenVersionIsBeforeBitEnumAdditio
         );
     }
 
-    public void testTranslateToVersion_ReturnsBit_WhenVersionOnBitEnumAddition_WhenSpecifyingBit() {
+    public void testTranslateToVersion_ReturnsBit_WhenVersionOnBitEnumAdditionPatch_WhenSpecifyingBit() {
         assertThat(
-            CohereEmbeddingType.translateToVersion(
-                CohereEmbeddingType.BIT,
-                TransportVersions.COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X
-            ),
+            CohereEmbeddingType.translateToVersion(CohereEmbeddingType.BIT, COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED),
             is(CohereEmbeddingType.BIT)
         );
     }
 
     public void testTranslateToVersion_ReturnsFloat_WhenVersionOnBitEnumAddition_WhenSpecifyingFloat() {
         assertThat(
-            CohereEmbeddingType.translateToVersion(
-                CohereEmbeddingType.FLOAT,
-                TransportVersions.COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_X
-            ),
+            CohereEmbeddingType.translateToVersion(CohereEmbeddingType.FLOAT, COHERE_BIT_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED),
             is(CohereEmbeddingType.FLOAT)
         );
     }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettingsTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettingsTests.java
index c8d0cfe241103..5e2489b10283e 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettingsTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/inference/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/inference/services/jinaai/embeddings/JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettingsTests.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.xpack.inference.services.jinaai.embeddings;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ValidationException;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
@@ -38,6 +37,11 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 
 public class JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettingsTests extends AbstractBWCWireSerializationTestCase<JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings> {
+
+    private static final TransportVersion JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED = TransportVersion.fromName(
+        "jina_ai_embedding_type_support_added"
+    );
+
     public static JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings createRandom() {
         SimilarityMeasure similarityMeasure = null;
         Integer dims = null;
@@ -221,7 +225,7 @@ protected JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings mutateInstance(JinaAIEmbeddingsService
 
     @Override
     protected JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings mutateInstanceForVersion(JinaAIEmbeddingsServiceSettings instance, TransportVersion version) {
-        if (version.onOrAfter(TransportVersions.JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED_BACKPORT_8_19)) {
+        if (version.supports(JINA_AI_EMBEDDING_TYPE_SUPPORT_ADDED)) {
             return instance;
         }
 
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/search-business-rules/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/searchbusinessrules/retriever/PinnedRankDoc.java b/x-pack/plugin/search-business-rules/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/searchbusinessrules/retriever/PinnedRankDoc.java
index 59af0c01d8262..69cf6c934951b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/search-business-rules/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/searchbusinessrules/retriever/PinnedRankDoc.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/search-business-rules/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/searchbusinessrules/retriever/PinnedRankDoc.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
-import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.rank.RankDoc;
@@ -19,6 +18,7 @@
 
 public class PinnedRankDoc extends RankDoc {
     public static final String NAME = "pinned_rank_doc";
+    private static final TransportVersion PINNED_RETRIEVER = TransportVersion.fromName("pinned_retriever");
 
     private final boolean isPinned;
 
@@ -76,6 +76,6 @@ protected int doHashCode() {
 
     @Override
     public TransportVersion getMinimalSupportedVersion() {
-        return TransportVersions.PINNED_RETRIEVER_8_19;
+        return PINNED_RETRIEVER;
     }
 }