I was a little hesitant so early in the cycle, but my upgrade went
flawlessly, I mention this not necessarily to encourage anyone, but just
to give you a data point in making your own choice.

grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v5 @ 3.30GHz

cat /etc/apt/sources.list
   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia           main contrib 
non-free non-free-firmware
   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-security  main contrib 
non-free non-free-firmware
   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-updates   main contrib 
non-free non-free-firmware
   deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged freia-backports main contrib 
non-free non-free-firmware

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && reboot
No warnings, no errors, no problem, YMMV.

uname -a
Linux zoot 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.16.3-1
(2025-08-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 7 (freia/ceres)"
NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="7"
VERSION="7 (freia/ceres)"
VERSION_CODENAME="freia ceres"
ID=devuan
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"

Thanks to everyone involved for such a solid distro!