Drush makefile downloading 7.x Dev instead of stable

Question

I have drush makefile that I use to kick off new Drupal installs:

my_profile.build

core = "7.x"
api = "2"

projects[drupal][version] = "7.x"
; ... grab install profile

When I run drush make my_profile.build it downloads the 7.x-dev version of core instead of stable. I knew that I code force the download of dev versions with projects[drupal][version] = "7.x-dev" but how do I make sure that it only downloads the stable version of a project? My drush version is 5.7.

Answer 1

To always specify the latest major version of Drupal, just use

projects[drupal][version] = 7

For modules and themes, just omit the version. For example:

projects[views][type] = module

Answer 2

Just put the exact version in the makefile:

projects[drupal][type] = core
projects[drupal][version] = "7.23"

Since it's auto selecting -dev (which isn't the default stable is) it sounds like your drush.rc file is tweaked to make -dev a default option ...