It is our pleasure to announce the release of the Athena Community Newsletter (issue 8), which we hope is of interest to you.

• Welcome

• New ASST and Working Group Chairs

• Athena Study Status

• Red Book and Athena Special Issue

• News from the Instruments: WFI and X-IFU

• News from JAXA

• News from NASA

• #AthenaNuggets: Mapping the Surroundings of Supermassive Black Holes

• Athena Community People: Stéphane Basa, Nanda Rea and Chris Reynolds

• Eight Announcement of Opportunity to join the Athena Community Working Groups/Topical Panels

• New Topical Panels: Athena  Multi-Messenger and Physics Beyond the Standard Model

• AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 1

• Conferences