Drush makefile downloading 7.x Dev instead of stable 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.
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