Here is a quick info on the features introduced in Kdenlive git since the release of Kdenlive 0.8.2.1.

Capture through MLT's avformat producer now supports audio only capture. It even works while playing the timeline, so that you can record a comment while viewing your project. You can see a screenshot of the updated capture widget.

A generic job framework was introduced, based on the proxy clip feature. Here are some of the consequences:

A new Online Resource widget made its appearance, and allows you to easily browse and download resources from the web. Currently, two services are implemented:
That's all for now, but I am quite happy with those newly introduces features, after all those months spent fixing bugs for the last release.
Interested testers can get the current git version from sunab's experimental PPA [3], or through the Kdenlive Build script [4].
Next, we have to work on the refactoring suff to improve our existing code, make it more modular and easier to contribute.
Thanks for reading, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
Links:
[1] http://freesound.org
[2] http://openclipart.org
[3] https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-svn
[4] http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/BuildScripts