It is our pleasure to announce the release of the Athena Community Newsletter (issue 7), which we hope is of interest to you.

• Welcome

• Giorgio (1939-2018) and Athena (1998-?)

• Athena Study Status

• News from the Instruments: WFI and X-IFU

• #AthenaNugget: Extrasolar Planets a Radiation Diet

• #AthenaNugget: On the Athena Ground Segment

• 3D spectroscopy from sub-mm to X-ray: the promise of Athena in the 2030s multiwavelength context: A special session at EWASS 2019

• Athena Community People: Jan-Willem den Herder, Mara Salvato and Giovanni Miniutti

• Conferences