My personal package archive at http://repo.technomancy.us/emacs/ now has
a new clojure-mode, clojure-test-mode, and paredit. It also has durendal
and a version of slime that has the version mismatch fix in place.
If you want to stay on stable Emacs, you can get the latest package.el
straight out of Emacs trunk; (http://bit.ly/pkg-el) I've done some
testing that indicates it should work fine on 23. Note that it now comes
configured with only the FSF repo out of the box, and since it doesn't
host non-GNU projects it only has six or so packages. You have to add
other archives like ELPA or my own before it's useful.
tl;dr: you'll get more up-to-date versions of clojure-mode, slime,
etc. if you use Emacs 24 with my personal package archive:
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("technomancy" . "http://repo.technomancy.us/emacs/") t)
Let me know if you run into problems.
-Phil