Debian offers both the stable release which you mentioned as well as more up-to-date 'testing' and relatively cutting-edge 'unstable' releases. The 'unstable' release tends to be stable enough for day to day use by the so-called 'power/super/hyper/turbo/whatever' user, it hardly ever breaks. I tend to run stable on servers, unstable on user-facing desktop/laptop/notebook applications. Even on servers I sometimes add the testing or unstable repository at a lower precedence to be able to selectively add packages from there. I've done this for decades and have yet to have a significant breakdown on either server or user-facing installations.