diff --git a/src/Context/GivenStepDefinitions.php b/src/Context/GivenStepDefinitions.php
index 670ae5ba3..248766a0e 100644
--- a/src/Context/GivenStepDefinitions.php
+++ b/src/Context/GivenStepDefinitions.php
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ public function given_a_request_to_a_url_respond_with_file( $url_or_pattern, PyS
 			mkdir( $dir, 0777, true /*recursive*/ );
 		}
 
-		$config_file_contents = <<<FILE
+		$config_file_contents = <<<'FILE'
 require:
     - mock-requests.php
 FILE;
diff --git a/tests/tests/TestBehatTags.php b/tests/tests/TestBehatTags.php
index 638f39ec4..77e6b7679 100644
--- a/tests/tests/TestBehatTags.php
+++ b/tests/tests/TestBehatTags.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 use WP_CLI\Utils;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\DataProvider;
 
+// phpcs:ignore Universal.Files.SeparateFunctionsFromOO.Mixed
 class TestBehatTags extends TestCase {
 
 	/**
@@ -192,4 +193,46 @@ public function test_behat_tags_extension(): void {
 
 		putenv( false === $env_github_token ? 'GITHUB_TOKEN' : "GITHUB_TOKEN=$env_github_token" );
 	}
+
+	public function test_behat_tags_db_version(): void {
+		$db_type = getenv( 'WP_CLI_TEST_DBTYPE' );
+
+		$behat_tags = dirname( dirname( __DIR__ ) ) . '/utils/behat-tags.php';
+		require $behat_tags;
+		// @phpstan-ignore-next-line
+		$db_version         = get_db_version();
+		$minimum_db_version = $db_version . '.1';
+
+		$contents  = '';
+		$expecteds = array();
+
+		switch ( $db_type ) {
+			case 'mariadb':
+				$contents    = "@require-mariadb-$minimum_db_version @less-than-mariadb-$db_version";
+				$expecteds[] = '~@require-mysql';
+				$expecteds[] = '~@require-sqlite';
+				$expecteds[] = "~@require-mariadb-$minimum_db_version";
+				$expecteds[] = "~@less-than-mariadb-$db_version";
+				break;
+			case 'sqlite':
+				$expecteds[] = '~@require-mariadb';
+				$expecteds[] = '~@require-mysql';
+				$expecteds[] = '~@require-mysql-or-mariadb';
+				break;
+			case 'mysql':
+			default:
+				$contents    = "@require-mysql-$minimum_db_version @less-than-mysql-$db_version";
+				$expecteds[] = '~@require-mariadb';
+				$expecteds[] = '~@require-sqlite';
+				$expecteds[] = "~@require-mysql-$minimum_db_version";
+				$expecteds[] = "~@less-than-mysql-$db_version";
+				break;
+		}
+
+		file_put_contents( $this->temp_dir . '/features/extension.feature', $contents );
+
+		$expected = '--tags=' . implode( '&&', array_merge( array( '~@github-api', '~@broken' ), $expecteds ) );
+		$output   = exec( "cd {$this->temp_dir}; php $behat_tags" );
+		$this->assertSame( $expected, $output );
+	}
 }
diff --git a/utils/behat-tags.php b/utils/behat-tags.php
index 5571fe996..c6fa9833e 100644
--- a/utils/behat-tags.php
+++ b/utils/behat-tags.php
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ function version_tags(
 	return $skip_tags;
 }
 
+function get_db_version() {
+	$version_string = exec( getenv( 'WP_CLI_TEST_DBTYPE' ) === 'mariadb' ? 'mariadb --version' : 'mysql -V' );
+	preg_match( '@[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+@', $version_string, $version );
+	return $version[0];
+}
+
 $features_folder = getenv( 'BEHAT_FEATURES_FOLDER' ) ?: 'features';
 $wp_version      = getenv( 'WP_VERSION' );
 $wp_version_reqs = array();
@@ -79,10 +85,16 @@ function version_tags(
 	$skip_tags[] = '@broken-trunk';
 }
 
+$db_version = get_db_version();
+
 switch ( getenv( 'WP_CLI_TEST_DBTYPE' ) ) {
 	case 'mariadb':
-		$skip_tags[] = '@require-mysql';
-		$skip_tags[] = '@require-sqlite';
+		$skip_tags = array_merge(
+			$skip_tags,
+			[ '@require-mysql', '@require-sqlite' ],
+			version_tags( 'require-mariadb', $db_version, '<', $features_folder ),
+			version_tags( 'less-than-mariadb', $db_version, '>=', $features_folder )
+		);
 		break;
 	case 'sqlite':
 		$skip_tags[] = '@require-mariadb';
@@ -91,8 +103,12 @@ function version_tags(
 		break;
 	case 'mysql':
 	default:
-		$skip_tags[] = '@require-mariadb';
-		$skip_tags[] = '@require-sqlite';
+		$skip_tags = array_merge(
+			$skip_tags,
+			[ '@require-mariadb', '@require-sqlite' ],
+			version_tags( 'require-mysql', $db_version, '<', $features_folder ),
+			version_tags( 'less-than-mysql', $db_version, '>=', $features_folder )
+		);
 		break;
 }