[Snyk] Security upgrade electron-forge from 2.12.0 to 4.2.1

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	416/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 2.6	Information Exposure SNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-2396346	Yes	No Known Exploit

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: electron-forge

The new version differs by 212 commits.

• ad7bf1f 4.2.1
• 05bf67a updated CHANGELOG.md
• e511206 fix(installer): hdiutil output should be a string
• 674e6c4 Add table of contents to README
• d3f610c docs(generic): add support document & move debugging section there
• 1c455c6 Allow AWS credentials to be picked up from the environment or .aws/credentials file
• 01857a8 chore(generic): upgrade mocha to 5.x
• 0bcedfe chore(generic): upgrade electron-installer-debian to 0.8.x
• e1f2607 chore(generic): replace node-github with @ octokit/rest
• a80ff50 chore(generic): upgrade github to v13
• 0ecc57d chore(generic): upgrade fs-extra to v5 and inquirer to v5
• 6e93e29 4.2.0
• 4c5c59b updated CHANGELOG.md
• 0e48365 feat(generic): allow specifying a build identifier that segregates build artifacts
• 32f2bff Fix link to electron-rebuild API
• b986f26 feat(rebuilder): allow configuration of electron-rebuild
• 8945e0a 4.1.9
• a7a2f30 updated CHANGELOG.md
• e844b1d fix(packager): packager hooks should be executed sequentially
• be49a9a 4.1.8
• 1ca042c updated CHANGELOG.md
• a5f8b40 fix(generic): tabtab install breaks in bash for windows
• 4d5378c fix(maker): fix detection of flatpak artifact
• 9c199e0 chore(maker): upgrade electron-installer-flatpak to 0.8.0 & re-enable its tests

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