Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may provide, to a source base station (BS) and prior to a handover of the UE from the source BS to a target BS, information that identifies a set of transition capabilities of the UE. The UE may receive, from the source BS, a handover command or reconfiguration message after providing the information to the source BS. The UE may communicate, using a subset of the transition capabilities, with the target BS prior to the release. Numerous other aspects are provided.