Best practice for tracking current release?

[Ben Hyde]

What’s “best practice” for staying in sync with the current 
release? - ben

ps. My tramp is 2.2.9-24.4, and it has one particularly frustrating 
behavior (sometimes it won’t save files (complaining “byte-code: 
Wrong type argument: stringp, (nil)”).  I notice[1] that the latest 
verison appears to be 2.2.12, but tramp’s not in the enumeration shown 
by M-x package-list-packages.

[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tramp -> 
http://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/ -> “TRAMP version 2.2.12 User 
Manual”

pps. Thanks, I don’t know how I’d work without Tramp!