diff --git a/autoload/airline/init.vim b/autoload/airline/init.vim
index d27286e..ac91587 100644
--- a/autoload/airline/init.vim
+++ b/autoload/airline/init.vim
@@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ function! airline#init#bootstrap()
         \ })
   call airline#parts#define_raw('file', '%f%m')
   call airline#parts#define_raw('path', '%F%m')
-  call airline#parts#define_raw('linenr', '%{g:airline_symbols.linenr}%#__accent_bold#%4l%#__restore__#')
+  call airline#parts#define('linenr', {
+        \ 'raw': '%{g:airline_symbols.linenr}%#__accent_bold#%4l%#__restore__#',
+        \ 'accent': 'bold'})
   call airline#parts#define_function('ffenc', 'airline#parts#ffenc')
   call airline#parts#define_empty(['hunks', 'branch', 'tagbar', 'syntastic', 'eclim', 'whitespace','windowswap'])
   call airline#parts#define_text('capslock', '')