chore: upgrade dependencies

[raymondfeng]

Upgrade EventEmitter2 to latest version to better align with Node.js EventEmitter APIs. We need this to remove remote hooks.

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• [x] New tests added or existing tests modified to cover all changes
• [x] Code conforms with the style guide

[zbarbuto]

Perhaps an item for discussion but what are thoughts on using something like greenkepper or renovate to keep an eye on dependency updates and automate PRs for them?

[bajtos]

thoughts on using something like greenkepper or renovate to keep an eye on dependency updates and automate PRs for them?

The last time I was looking into this, I found out that such tools don't work well for us:

• We are automatically picking all backwards-compatible releases (semver-minor, semver-patch) thanks to ^ operator used in version specs.
• As a result, we need automated pull requests only for semver-major releases. At that time, I did not find a way how to configure dependency updaters to ignore minor and patch releases.

However, the landscape may have changed since then. @zbarbuto if you have bandwidth to look into this, then please go ahead!