diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 06bf04d..fd84f3e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.7.1
+- Release emergency bugfix, 0.7.0 broke recursive option parsing
+
 ## 0.7.0
 - Add support for SNS Notifcations to Cloudformation create and update operations
 - Refactored recursive handling of options withing stack groups
diff --git a/cloudbender/__init__.py b/cloudbender/__init__.py
index 74b9305..a1245bd 100644
--- a/cloudbender/__init__.py
+++ b/cloudbender/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import logging
 
 __author__ = "Stefan Reimer"
 __email__ = "stefan@zero-downtimet.net"
-__version__ = "0.7.0"
+__version__ = "0.7.1"
 
 
 # Set up logging to ``/dev/null`` like a library is supposed to.
diff --git a/cloudbender/stack.py b/cloudbender/stack.py
index 0b19aa6..c191edf 100644
--- a/cloudbender/stack.py
+++ b/cloudbender/stack.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import hashlib
 import oyaml as yaml
 import json
 import time
+import pprint
 
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from dateutil.tz import tzutc
@@ -33,20 +34,31 @@ class StackStatus(object):
 
 
 class Stack(object):
-    def __init__(self, name, template, path, rel_path, sg_config={}, ctx={}):
+    def __init__(self, name, template, path, rel_path, sg_config, ctx):
         self.stackname = name
         self.template = template
         self.path = path
         self.rel_path = rel_path
         self.ctx = ctx
 
-        self.tags = sg_config.get('tags', {})
-        self.parameters = sg_config.get('parameters', {})
-        self.options = sg_config.get('options', {})
-        self.region = sg_config.get('region', 'global')
-        self.profile = sg_config.get('profile', '')
-        self.onfailure = sg_config.get('onfailure', "DELETE")
-        self.notfication_sns = sg_config.get('notification_sns', [])
+        self.tags = {}
+        self.parameters = {}
+        self.options = {}
+        self.region = 'global'
+        self.profile = ''
+        self.onfailure = 'DELETE'
+        self.notfication_sns = []
+
+        self.tags.update(sg_config.get('tags'))
+        self.parameters.update(sg_config.get('parameters'))
+        self.options.update(sg_config.get('options'))
+
+        if 'region' in sg_config:
+            self.region = sg_config['region']
+        if 'profile' in sg_config:
+            self.profile = sg_config['profile']
+        if 'notfication_sns' in sg_config:
+            self.notfication_sns = sg_config['notfication_sns']
 
         self.id = (self.profile, self.region, self.stackname)
 
@@ -63,7 +75,7 @@ class Stack(object):
         self.multi_delete = True
 
     def dump_config(self):
-        logger.debug("<Stack {}: {}>".format(self.id, vars(self)))
+        logger.debug("<Stack {}: {}>".format(self.id, pprint.pformat(vars(self))))
 
     def read_config(self):
         _config = read_config_file(self.path)
diff --git a/cloudbender/stackgroup.py b/cloudbender/stackgroup.py
index 721c71b..5502c54 100644
--- a/cloudbender/stackgroup.py
+++ b/cloudbender/stackgroup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import os
 import glob
 import logging
+import pprint
 
 from .utils import dict_merge
 from .jinja import read_config_file
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ class StackGroup(object):
         for sg in self.sgs:
             sg.dump_config()
 
-        logger.debug("<StackGroup {}: {}>".format(self.name, self.config))
+        logger.debug("StackGroup {}: {}".format(self.rel_path, pprint.pformat(self.config)))
 
         for s in self.stacks:
             s.dump_config()