dded</strong> a new annotation, <code>networking.istio.io/traffic-distribution</code>, that can be applied to make ztunnel prefer sending traffic to local pods.
This behaves the same as the <a href=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#traffic-distribution><code>spec.trafficDistribution</code></a> field on <code>Service</code>, but
allows usage on older Kubernetes versions (as the field was added as beta in Kubernetes 1.31).
Note that waypoints automatically set this.</p></li><li>