So http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdenlive/ lists 0.8.2 as the latest version.

How come? Did the project move from sourceforge to somewhere else?

Maybe at note at the sourceforge page should mention that. Because then we would not need to be telling people all the time to upgrade to 0.9.6

The source forge page says it has had 400 downloads this week of the 0.8.2 version which is 400 people with a way out of date version in one week !