> With the new installation I did quite a few updates and safe-upgrades,
> but none brought in the 4.5.0 kernel as far as I know. It was only
> because for some reason I searched the archive for linux-image that I
> discovered it and installed it. Does not its presence in the Devuan beta
> Jessie repository mean that the 4.5.0 kernel is considered stable?

It would only have been there if you either had the jessie-backports or
unstable/experimental repositories also setup, and in all those cases
there is no guarantee it is stable.

Regards,
    Daniel

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