It is our pleasure to announce the release of the Athena Community Newsletter (issue 9), which we hope is of interest to you.

• Welcome
• Ninth AO to join the Athena
• Latest news
• The Athena-multimessenger synergy white paper
• Rubin-Athena synergy status
• Athena Study Status
• News from the Instruments: WFI and X-IFU
• News from JAXA
• News from NASA
• #AthenaNuggets: Athena's discovery potential for nearby X-ray emitting large-scale filaments
• #AthenaNuggets: Anticipating the unexpected
• Athena Community People: Matteo Guainazzi, Esra Bulbul and Stefano Ettori
• AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 3
• Conferences