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[v8.x] deps: update npm to 5.4.2

This includes three npm releases, one of which is pretty big (5.4.0).

Changes of Note

  • Significant performance boost for installations from cache (~10%+)
  • A number of bugfixes for important and severe bugs affecting installation on all supported platforms, but particularly noticeable on Windows.
  • More Windows-related fixes for npx.
  • #17844 Make package-lock.json sorting locale-agnostic. This will cause some users to see seemingly spurious diffs on their pkglocks if they were using previous versions of npm5, because, for example, JSONStream is sorted into a different location. This is fine and will go away as people upgrade.

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Checklist
  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
  • commit message follows commit guidelines
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