Yes, these are two different meanings of "stable".

In Clojure, "stable" means that your code remains working after the upgrades of its dependencies.

In Python, "stable" means that the dependencies themselves remain upgraded.

I am not suggesting that one thing is better than the other. What I meant, is that one thing is more attractive than the other for an average developer.

Currently, there are very few Clojure libraries from a decade ago that are still being actively maintained today.