Hi @Y2DTL ,

To be honest, I'm also surprised. I understood this documentation snippet exactly as you. Moreover, check below excellent blog entry from Bartosz Konieczny, where he analyzes quite similar scenario:

https://www.waitingforcode.com/apache-spark-structured-streaming/broadcast-join-changing-static-data...

In case of Delta format we should get the latest version. 

So maybe final question. Your static dataset is in Delta format? Because if not, then Bartosz blog explains this 🙂