How do I make sure synaptic is up to date?

[pingball57]

Sorry I don't understand - LMMS / WINE or synaptic?

I'm having some issues with LMMS crashing & 1.2 is supposed to be much more stable. I'm not sure how to upgrade it without using synaptic which only shows the 1.1.3 that I have installed now.

I currently don't have WINE.

[Jerry]

You should only upgrade it if a) there are security concerns, b) it has new features that you will be using.

[pingball57]

My usual poor search terms aren't helping me here. I'm on distro 3.4

I'm using the LMMS DAW & been informed on their forum that the 1.1.3 version I'm running is 4 yrs old & I should remove it & upgrade to the latest & more stable version 1.2.  Looking in synaptic manager 1.1.3 is still showing.
I also want to install WINE whose web page shows the latest version is 4.0.1 but synaptic shows 1:1.8.0 - Oubuntu 1 - ubi . Is this the latest version?

What do I need to do to ensure synaptic is up to date &/or install the above latest version programs ? It's been a while since I installed LL so I'm also rusty on command line stuff.