I would like to know if there are any changes in Kubernetes 1.35 that the SDP could potentially make use of, will require changes or will break things on our end.

This should be timeboxed and take up at most 4h of research and reading.
The result of this should be a comment on this issue or follow-up issues listing the high level points of things we could, should and should not do.

Must read:

• https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/17/kubernetes-v1-35-release/#prefersamenode-traffic-distribution

Additional resources:

• https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/264-kubernetes-1.35/
• There are a whole bunch of feature specific blog posts in the Kubernetes blog as well