I'm trying to upgrade org in my setup by following the instructions here but I don't see org listed as an option. The instructions say to report it as a discrepancy but I'm thinking it's more likely something on my end since I haven't seen it there for a while and figure someone else would have reported by now.
I'm on Windows with Emacs 25.1.1. I've tried emacs -q then package-refresh-contents and can see the other packages listed at http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ but not org.
M-x package-refreshM-x package-install RET org followed by spacebar then RET.The extra space at the end of org was essential in my case.
In my vanilla emacs install, package-install wanted to offer autocorrect for the org-edna and orgalist packages, so the spacebar was required to get emacs to move past those and recognize the entry for the plain-old org package.
Orgmode is such a large project that it has its own repo.
See this discussion on /r/emacs about installing a new version of Orgmode using use-package.
org using package-install however I do have the option of org-plus-contrib. I also checked list-packages and can see two org entries, one from gnu and one from the org repo. org repo by hitting i, then x in the package menu? package-install. This is also causing errors because I'd like to add org to my init file using use-package use-package, see the /r/emacs thread I linked to. Apparently (use-package org :ensure org-plus-contrib :pin org) should work; haven't tried it myself.