request: last release should be major version - breaks compatibility with pre ECMAScript 2015

Summary

https://github.com/request/request/pull/2751 breaks compatibility, the resulting hawk version should have incremented the major version number, not the patch number (2.82.0 to 2.82.1) in https://github.com/request/request/commit/6f1b51ed43309128487739f20f9df0699a043124

I updated hawk from 3.1.3 to 6.0.2 (still a ~ for version managing)

This jump in versions changed the which version(s) of NodeJS it is compatible with and should have resulted in a major version change. Only the patch version was updated (not even the minor version!), consequently libraries which depend on version 2.x of request automatically pick up a breaking change.

Simplest Example to Reproduce

run/compile in code that requires/uses pre- ECMAScript 2015

Expected Behavior

compiling an application that has transitive dependencies on request 5 days ago and today should continue to work, especially when the transitive dependency specifies a locked major version.

Current Behavior

building a project fails due to the new patch version.

/node_modules/grunt-juice-email/node_modules/juice/node_modules/jsdom/node_modules/request/node_modules/hawk/node_modules/boom/lib/index.js:5
const Hoek = require('hoek');
^^^^^

Loading "juice.js" tasks...ERROR
>> SyntaxError: Use of const in strict mode.

Possible Solution

remove version 2.82.1, update to 3.0.0 to account for the breaking change

Context

Builds that worked on the 15th no longer work, code work, deploys that are in-progress are halted. We’re looking at having to create a snowflake fork of this library just to keep our application working, since upgrading our NodeJS across the board is not a short-term option.

Your Environment

software	version
request	2.x (via jsdom )
node	0.10.26
npm
Operating System	Debian 7.11