On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 08:18:08 -0400
Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:

> 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?

I have the 4.5 kernel available only from the "jessie-backports"
repository, so it is not to be considered stable in terms of de*an.
See https://backports.debian.org/

Florian