[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.
Changelogs
Checklist
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make -j4 test
(UNIX), orvcbuild test
(Windows) passes -
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