Debian is stable because it goes through a long period of ensuring that
the individual programs are stable before each version is released. This
means that it is generally old when it is released. Some other
distributions don't go through the same amount of stabilizing so they
can be more up to date.
This is the basic tradeoff. If you find Debian is too old for you, you
can switch to a distro that releases newer packages. There are a lot of
Debian derivatives that you can try without going through compiling your
own code. Again, Ubuntu and Mint are both popular.