diff --git a/templates/drupal-7.xml b/templates/drupal-7.xml
index 645d602..103e317 100644
--- a/templates/drupal-7.xml
+++ b/templates/drupal-7.xml
@@ -6667,6 +6667,32 @@ function $module$_uninstall() {
   $END$
 }]]></value>
   </template>
+  <template name="hook_update_N" description="Perform a single update." toReformat="true" toShortenFQNames="true">
+    <variable name="module" expression="firstWord(fileNameWithoutExtension())" defaultValue="" alwaysStopAt="true"/>
+    <variable name="N" expression="" defaultValue="&quot;7000&quot;" alwaysStopAt="true"/>
+    <context>
+      <option name="HTML_TEXT" value="false"/>
+      <option name="HTML" value="false"/>
+      <option name="XSL_TEXT" value="false"/>
+      <option name="XML" value="false"/>
+      <option name="CSS" value="false"/>
+      <option name="JAVA_SCRIPT" value="false"/>
+      <option name="SQL" value="false"/>
+      <option name="PHP" value="true"/>
+      <option name="OTHER" value="false"/>
+      <option name="CSS_PROPERTY_VALUE" value="false"/>
+      <option name="CSS_DECLARATION_BLOCK" value="false"/>
+      <option name="CSS_RULESET_LIST" value="false"/>
+    </context>
+    <value><![CDATA[/**
+ * Implements hook_update_N().
+ */
+function $module$_update_$N$(&$sandbox) {
+  $ret = array();
+  $END$
+  return $ret;
+}]]></value>
+  </template>
   <template name="hook_update_projects_alter" description="Alter the list of projects before fetching data and comparing versions." toReformat="true" toShortenFQNames="true">
     <variable name="module" expression="firstWord(fileNameWithoutExtension())" defaultValue="" alwaysStopAt="true"/>
     <context>