The phrase "a routine update" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a regular or scheduled update on a project, system, or situation.
Example: "We will be sending out a routine update on the project's progress every Friday."
Alternatives: "a regular update" or "a scheduled update."
Executives describe the presentation as a routine update for workers.
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, provides the new security in a routine update which reduces almost to zero the possibility of messages being intercepted or decrypted.
The figures detailing Iran's progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country's main nuclear plant at Natanz.
Engineers did not need to stay up all night in a mad scramble to make repairs, but, as one system administrator told me, the nature of the bug made this something more than a routine update.
Siemens became aware of the virus, Mr. Machowetz said, after one of its industrial clients in Germany, which he declined to identify, detected the virus during a routine update of its Siemens software.
The defendant, Derek Sterling, was appearing before the judge, Justice Laura D. Blackburne of State Supreme Court in Queens, for a routine update about his progress in a drug treatment program that he had been sent to after a drug arrest.
That sentence was edited out of the article — in a routine updating, said Politico — after the blogger Andrew Sullivan highlighted it as a devastating indictment of a Washington media elite too cozy with and protective of its sources to report the unvarnished news.
Similarly, a top F.B.I. official late Wednesday gave a senior Congressional staff member what began as a fairly routine update on the status of the investigation.
This, like today, made for a fairly routine update — more speed, longer battery life, we know the drill.
The announcement was made in what analysts had expected to be a routine midquarter update of the company's progress.
A spokeswoman for the bank in Toronto, Judi Levita, said the problems started with a routine programming update by the information technology staff.
